President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/File

President Donald Trump did not take the possibility of the US sending long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine off the table during his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin , sources familiar with their conversation told CNN.

But Trump is also not expected to commit to providing the potentially game changing American-made weapons in his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, two of the sources said, though they cautioned that things can always change once the president is alone in a room with the Ukrainians.

The US president, in both public and private, has appeared more willing to all

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