Trump shares sympathetic exchange with Ukrainian journalist whose husband is fighting in war

President Donald Trump shared a tender speech with a Ukrainian writer who told him during a property league astatine the decision of the NATO summit that her hubby was warring successful the warfare successful their location country. 

The reporter, who said she was moving for the BBC, shared that her hubby is simply a worker successful Ukraine and that she presently lives with their children successful Warsaw, Poland, much than 3 years aft the Russian invasion. 

Calling connected reporters successful The Hague, Netherlands, Trump granted a question to the pistillate aft noticing she was "all excited." 

"Where are you from?" Trump asked. 

"I'm from Ukraine," she told an inquisitive Trump. She asked the president if the U.S. is acceptable to merchantability much anti-air rocket systems, known arsenic Patriots, to Ukraine. 

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President Donald Trump held a property league aft the NATO Heads of State and Government Summit successful The Hague, Netherlands connected Jun. 25, 2025.  (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"We cognize that Russia has been pounding Ukraine truly heavy close now," she added. 

Trump asked the reporter, "Are you surviving yourself present successful Ukraine?" 

"My hubby is there," she said. 

Noticing her emotion, Trump interjected, "Wow. I tin spot you're … you know, it's amazing." 

The pistillate added, "And maine with the kids, I'm successful Warsaw, actually." 

Trump continued to inquire the pistillate astir her idiosyncratic transportation to the quality she was reporting on. She responded that her hubby was so a solider currently successful Ukraine, drafting an audible absorption from Trump. 

"Wow. That's unsmooth stuff, right? That's tough," Trump said. "Let maine conscionable archer you, they bash privation to person the anti-missile missiles, arsenic they telephone them, the Patriots. And we're going to spot if we tin marque immoderate available."

"You know, they're precise hard to get. We request them too," Trump said. "We were supplying them to Israel, and they're precise effective. 100% effective. Hard to judge however effective. And they bash privation that much than immoderate different thing, arsenic you astir apt know. That's a precise bully question. And I privation you a batch of luck. I mean, I tin spot that it's precise upsetting to you." 

President Donald Trump during a quality league connected the 2nd time of the NATO Summit connected June 25, 2025, successful The Hague, Netherlands.  (Omar Havana/Getty Images)

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"Say hullo to your husband. Okay?" Trump added.

Trump met with Ukrainian person Volodymyr Zelenskyy connected the sidelines of the NATO acme earlier Wednesday and suggested that accrued spending by the trans-Atlantic confederation could assistance forestall aboriginal Russian aggression against its neighbors.

At the property conference, Trump laced into CNN and the New York Times implicit their sum of the U.S. strikes connected Iran, but helium displayed warmth to the Ukrainian writer and her question astir Patriot missiles. 

Over the people of the war, the U.S. has routinely pressed for allies to supply aerial defence systems to Ukraine, but galore are reluctant to springiness up the high-tech systems, peculiarly countries successful Eastern Europe that besides consciousness threatened by Russia.

NATO members agreed to rise their spending targets by 2035 to 5% of gross home merchandise annually connected halfway defence requirements arsenic good arsenic defense-and security-related spending. That people had been 2% of GDP.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives astatine a meal for NATO heads of states and authorities connected the sidelines of a NATO summit, astatine Huis 10 Bosch Palace successful The Hague, Netherlands, connected Jun. 24, 2025.  (Reuters/Toby Melville)

Trump said that the Ukraine situation "has besides highlighted the urgency of rebuilding our defence concern base, some successful the United States and among the allied nations." He said the U.S. cannot beryllium babelike connected overseas adversaries for captious minerals.

Shortly aft seeing Zelenskyy, Trump said helium would soon conscionable with Russian person Vladimir Putin. He cited having difficulties dealing with some leaders. 

Trump was asked by a antithetic newsman if the United States would lend immoderate much wealth to Ukraine's defence this twelvemonth successful summation to the $5 cardinal that allies are giving. 

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"As acold arsenic the wealth going, we'll spot what happens," Trump said. "Look, Vladimir Putin, truly extremity that war. People are dying astatine levels that radical haven't seen earlier for a agelong time." 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.