French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, September 21, that his meeting with Donald Trump in New York was “very constructive,” and that he pressed the US president to speed up deliveries of missile interceptors to Ukraine, which he described as a defensive measure.

The two met at Trump Tower a day before the opening of the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly, and Macron said they held a long discussion about Ukraine and Russia as well as the situation in the Red Sea, which he called important for global prices. According to the French president, Trump was “very receptive.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is also due to meet Trump in New York this week, according to the Kyiv Post.