President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he was open to getting rid of or reducing the U.S.-applied restrictions on how Ukraine uses long-range, U.S.-made weapons, according to a new report.

Zelensky asked Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly this week for more long-range missiles and permission to use them to hit targets in Russian territory. The president told him he was open to the idea, according to the Wall Street Journal, but did not commit to overturning the current restrictions.

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Specifically, the Ukrainian leader is seeking the Tomahawk long-range precision-guided missile. The RTX (formerly known as Raytheon) Corporation-built missile has a range of 1,000 miles and can be fired from ships, submarines, and ground launchers.

“They have to know where the bomb shelters are,” Zelensky said in an Axios interview regarding Kremlin officials. “They need it. If they will not stop the war, they will need it in any case.”

“They have to know that we in Ukraine, each day, we will answer. If they attack us, we will answer them,” he added.

Zelensky said Trump told him, “We will work on it.”

Should Trump follow through on this and allow Ukraine to use American-made long-range weapons to hit targets deep in Russian territory, it would be a major shift for the president. His administration has blocked Ukraine from using the long-range systems the United States has provided, including the Army Tactical Missile Systems, to hit targets in Russia.

Ukrainian officials are traveling to the U.S. next week, where they’ll meet with War Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Zelensky and other Ukrainian leaders have said the restrictions hinder their ability to win back Russian-occupied territory effectively. They use their weapons to hit military targets in Russian territory.

After their meeting on Tuesday, Trump declared on social media that Ukraine has the ability to reclaim all of the territory Russia occupies, and called the Russian military a “paper tiger” fighting an “aimless” war.

The Trump administration does not provide weapons to Ukraine directly; rather, it has developed a system in which North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies buy weapons from the U.S. to give to Ukraine.

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“With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, [reclaimation of] the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option,” Trump said in the Truth Social post. “We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them.”

The president came into office in January hoping to quickly end the conflict diplomatically, but has made little headway since then. He has often rebuked both Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he has become more critical of the latter as Trump has begun viewing him as the impediment to peace.