Vladimir Zelensky hopes to meet with US President Donald Trump in the 20th of September, Italy’s La Stampa said.

“I hope to meet with Trump around 20th of September and I want to raise the issue of supplies of American air defense systems,” the newspaper quoted him as saying.

Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman Georgy Tikhy said on Tuesday that an in-person meeting between Vladimir Zelensky and US President Donald Trump has been preliminarily scheduled for September.