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Russia Today
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Kremlin aide reveals details of Putin-Trump call
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump have engaged in their sixth phone conversation of the year. The talk on Thursday lasted for almost an hour. Putin told Trump that Russia will not back down from its goal of eliminating the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine, presidential aide Yury Ushakov has announced. The call also came shortly after Putin's first direct conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron in nearly three years. Since Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he and Putin have held at least five phone calls. The discussions have focused on efforts to negotiate an end to the Ukraine conflict, arms control, and restoring bilateral ties, which sank to an all-time low during the administration of Joe Biden. The latest call took place on June 14 and revolved around Israel's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities as well as retaliation from Tehran. DETAILS TO FOLLOW
Russia Today
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Kremlin reveals peculiar detail about Putin-Trump call
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has revealed some 'technical nuances' of recent and past phone calls between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, which help reduce the chance of miscommunication. In an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin published on Telegram on Sunday, Peskov said that Putin does not fully rely on simultaneous interpretation during such conversations, as the Russian leader is able to hear and understand the American president directly. 'The president first hears the voice of his counterpart – that is, he hears Trump's voice – and then the interpreter translates it,' Peskov explained. He noted that Putin understands English and is capable of following the conversation before the translation begins. 'As you know, the president understands English himself, so he can immediately process some of the information,' Peskov added, noting that the exchange takes longer due to the back-and-forth nature of interpretation. The two leaders spoke for over two hours on May 19, with the Kremlin describing the exchange as 'very useful.' The conversation followed direct peace talks held in Istanbul – the first in-person negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian representatives since 2022, when Kiev withdrew from a proposed peace deal that had already been agreed in principle. The latest round of talks resulted in a proposal for the largest prisoner exchange to date. According to Putin, the discussion with Trump was 'productive, substantive and quite candid,' with the primary focus on the Ukraine conflict. Speaking to reporters afterward, he said both sides had agreed that Moscow would draft a memorandum outlining the principles and timeline for a potential peace agreement. The proposed framework would also cover other matters, including 'a potential temporary ceasefire, should the necessary agreements be reached.' Trump said the call 'went very well,' describing the tone and spirit of the conversation as 'excellent.' However, on Sunday, the US leader said he was 'not happy with what Putin's doing,' criticizing Moscow's response to a week of sustained Ukrainian drone raids as completely unwarranted. Moscow has consistently reaffirmed its commitment to a diplomatic resolution of the conflict and welcomed Washington's involvement in advancing direct talks. Putin reiterated that Russia is ready to work with Kiev on drafting the document and emphasized that 'eliminating the root causes' of the conflict 'is what matters most to us.' The Russian Foreign Ministry has described the surge in Ukrainian 'terrorist' drone attacks on non-military targets as a deliberate attempt by Kiev's 'party of war' to sabotage the recently renewed direct peace negotiations between Moscow and Kiev. Ukraine's Western backers, 'led by the UK, France, Germany, and the EU leadership,' are facilitating the attacks by supporting 'Ukrainian Nazis,' Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.
Times
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Putin taunts Trump with biggest wave of drone strikes on Ukraine
President Putin has tested President Trump's resolve to end the war in Ukraine on the eve of talks between the two men, the Kremlin launching its biggest wave of armed drones since the start of the conflict. The leaders will hold a telephone call on Monday in which Trump is expected to press for an end to the fighting, warning that Washington will not tolerate further Russian brinkmanship and delays to peace negotiations. The talks between Trump and Putin, their first since March, come after Putin refused to meet President Zelensky in Istanbul at the end of last week. Trump will also speak to Zelensky, who has already backed a ceasefire, as well as European leaders on Monday. Despite the pressure from Washington, Putin
BBC News
17-05-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Trump says he will call Putin on Monday to discuss stopping Ukraine war
Donald Trump says he will be speaking to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday about ending the war in Ukraine, saying the call at 10:00 EDT (14:00 GMT) would be about "stopping the 'bloodbath'".In a post on Truth Social, the US president said he would then speak to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and leaders of some Nato and Ukraine were unable to reach any breakthrough when they held their first face-to-face talks in three years in Istanbul on Friday, although a prisoner swap was US president had offered to attend the talks in Turkey if Putin would also go, but his Russian counterpart did not take up the offer. Trump's comments come after he suggested on Thursday that progress on ending the war would only happen if he and Putin held face-to-face talks."Hopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place, and this very violent war, a war that should have never happened, will end," Trump wrote on leaders have been calling for Russia to agree to a 30-day ceasefire in the the talks in Istanbul, Ukraine reiterated its call for a full and unconditional head of the Russian delegation, Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky, said the Russian delegation was satisfied with the talks and ready to continue later, a Russian drone hit a passenger bus in the Sumy region, killing nine people - prompting Zelensky to demand stiffer sanctions on said the attack on the bus was "a deliberate killing of civilians". Russia has not commented, but state media reported that forces had hit a "military staging area" in Sumy launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
