The Kremlin on Monday denied reports of an alleged telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling such claims “pure fiction”. “Reports of a Putin-Trump phone conversation are false. There was no call between the two. Putin currently has no specific plans to speak with Trump,” the Kremlin said in its statement. Let us tell you that the Washington Post and Reuters reported that the two top leaders had a phone conversation on Thursday.
Several newspapers reported the conversation between Trump and Putin.
Trump called Russian President Putin from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Thursday, days after his landslide victory over Democratic challenger Kamala Harris in the recently concluded US presidential election, the Washington Post reported. The report further claims that during the conversation, Trump advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine. During the call, Trump also reminded Putin of Washington’s large military presence in Europe.
So was there really a conversation between Putin and Trump?
Let us tell you that during his election campaign, Trump promised to immediately resolve the long war between Russia and Ukraine but did not say how he planned to do so. According to the US newspaper, Trump said privately that he would support a deal where Russia retains some free territories and briefly touched on the issue of territories during a phone call with Putin. The Washington Post said the Ukrainian government was informed of the call and did not object because Kiev officials understood Trump would discuss the matter with Putin.
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