Trump to host Netanyahu and Zelensky at the White House

Where things stand

Trump's Tuesday, 28 July schedule at the White House now has both of its announced guests in motion. Netanyahu's visit, first made public by his own office and reported by Folha de S.Paulo, is expected to centre on Iran: according to Bloomberg, the Israeli prime minister intends to press Trump to keep watch on Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Zelensky arrives in Washington the same day, having spent Monday at a British naval base as the first foreign leader received by Andy Burnham, who became UK prime minister on 20 July. London used the occasion to announce that it would transfer to Kyiv the intellectual property behind its "Stone Cloak" electronic jammer, a shift from delivering equipment to enabling Ukrainian production at scale, and the meeting doubles as an early indication of whether British policy on Ukraine holds after the change of prime minister. What Zelensky brings to the Oval Office is less settled. Reports of US-Ukrainian discussions on an air ceasefire remain unconfirmed, and the Kremlin has said it is too early to comment on them. Beyond the two leaders, Breitbart reports that Tuesday in Washington also carries a memorial service for Senator Lindsey Graham, who died on 11 July at the age of 71, leaving Trump to move between the Iran file, the Ukraine file and a funeral in a single day.

The thread follows a day of back-to-back diplomacy at the White House, where Trump is set to receive the leaders of Israel and Ukraine. Netanyahu's visit was announced by his own office, according to Folha de S.Paulo; Zelensky's presence is described as expected rather than formally confirmed in the same announcement. The two visits bring together two separate conflicts in which Washington is a central actor: the war involving Iran and the war in Ukraine. What the leaders will discuss, and what either meeting is intended to produce, has not been detailed in the available reporting.