President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky had written to him to say he appreciates U.S. support for his country in its war with Russia and is ready to sign a deal that could ensure future American support.

In a speech to Congress following last week's disastrous meeting at the White House, Trump said Zelensky had told him that Ukraine is ready to negotiate a peace deal with Russia as soon as possible and would accept a critical minerals agreement with the U.S. to facilitate that.

President Donald Trump 's Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress highlighted several of the initiatives he's started in his first six weeks in office, but many of his comments included false and misleading information.

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Donald Trump gave the longest-ever address to a joint session of Congress by any U.S. president on Tuesday, clocking in at more than one hour and 40 minutes.

Republican Trump's speech beat the previous record set by Democratic President Bill Clinton in his State of the Union address in 2000.

Denmark on Wednesday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump's vow to take over Greenland "one way or the other" in a speech to Congress.

"That won't happen," Danish Defense Minister Trouls Lund Poulsen told public broadcaster DR, adding that "the direction that Greenland wants to take will be decided by Greenlanders". He noted that Trump had also expressed support for the people of the autonomous Danish island to determine their own future.

The Kremlin on Wednesday said it was "positive" about comments by U.S. President Donald Trump who said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is "ready" for peace talks with Russia.

"This approach is generally positive," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a conference call in answer to a question from AFP.

Iran said Turkey's criticism of its foreign policy risked worsening ties between the neighboring countries, after Islamist rebels allied with Ankara ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

In an interview with Al Jazeera in February, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Iran risked plunging the Middle East into "disorder".

The chief of the European Union's executive on Tuesday proposed an 800 billion euro ($841 billion) plan to beef up defenses of EU nations to lessen the impact of potential U.S. disengagement and provide Ukraine with military muscle to negotiate with Russia following the freeze of U.S. aid to the embattled nation.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the massive "REARM Europe" package will be put to the 27 EU leaders who will meet in Brussels on Thursday in an emergency meeting following a week of increasing political uncertainty from Washington, where President Donald Trump questioned both his alliance to the continent and the defense of Ukraine.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the lifting of U.S. economic sanctions on Russia was a prerequisite for normalizing ties between the two countries.

"Of course, if we're talking about normalizing bilateral relations, these relations must be free of the negative burden of sanctions," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a daily press briefing.

Russia said on Tuesday the suspension of U.S. aid to Ukraine following a public clash between their leaders, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, was the best contribution to ending the Russia-Ukraine war.

"If the United States stops (military supplies), this would probably be the best contribution to peace," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that it was a "solution which could really push the Kyiv regime to a peace process".

A former Iranian foreign minister who was key to the country's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers reportedly tendered his resignation on Monday from the government of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, caving in to pressure from hard-liners.

The resignation of Mohammad Javad Zarif signaled Tehran's rapid retreat from its outreach to the West as U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies sanctions on the country.