Hours before Vance and Zelenskyy were set to meet, a Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective confinement shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv region, the Ukrainian president said. Radiation levels have not increased, Zelenskyy and the U.N. atomic agency said.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said Ukraine would have a seat at the table during any peace negotiations with Russia over ending the war. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said the war in Ukraine has to end.