Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that "strong Ukraine-U.S. relations benefit the entire world," an apparent attempt to calm tensions with Washington after he and U.S. President Donald Trump traded barbs this week over efforts to end Russia's three-year war on Ukraine.

Zelenskyy said in Kyiv he had a "productive meeting" with Trump envoy Keith Kellogg on the "battlefield situation, how to retu