By Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday China was supplying weapons and gunpowder to Russia, the first time he has openly accused Beijing of direct military assistance for Moscow.

Ukraine has intelligence which shows China is supplying artillery and gunpowder to Russia, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday. "We believe that Chinese representatives are engaged in the production of some weapons on the territory of Russia,

"There will be a trade deal 100%," Trump said ahead of a luncheon at the White House with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. "I fully expect it."

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he expects to make a trade deal with China, though he offered no specifics or indications of how talks would get underway with the two superpowers at an apparent impasse.

U.S. President Donald Trump is open to making a trade deal with China but Beijing should make the first move, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. "The ball is in China's court: China needs to make a deal with us,

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited China on Thursday as the executive behind high-powered artificial-intelligence chips seeks to navigate the trade war between the U.S. and China.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Beijing on Thursday, said Yuyuan Tantian, a social media account associated with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Huang arrives at a time when the United States has put new restrictions on China-bound shipments of H20 datacentre GPUs,

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday that China was a very important market for Nvidia after the U.S. imposed a ban on sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to the country.