Kremlin: Trump discussed swift end to war against Ukraine with Putin
In Moscow, the Kremlin of Russia, the aggressor state, said that US President Donald Trump, during a phone call with Vladimir Putin, stressed the need to end the war against Ukraine as quickly as possible. According to the Kremlin, Trump linked this to the prospect of a full restoration of relations between the United States and Russia.
The conversation lasted an hour
As Channel NewsAsia reports, citing the Kremlin, the leaders' conversation lasted an hour. Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov called it constructive and said that the presidents agreed to stay in touch and speak by phone again if necessary.
According to Ushakov, Putin presented Trump with his vision of how the United States could help end the war and also assessed the situation on the battlefield. The Kremlin representative said that Putin supported Trump's approach, as he seeks to achieve a breakthrough during his presidency.
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Prisoner exchanges and envoys' contacts
Ushakov also said that Trump and Putin agreed on the need to continue prisoner exchanges. The conversation took place after US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Moscow and Kyiv over the weekend.
According to the source, these contacts did not produce an immediate public result, although the envoys raised the possibility of resuming trilateral talks involving Russia, Ukraine, and the United States. The Kremlin's statement on the Trump-Putin conversation did not mention such a possibility. Russia and Ukraine, as Channel NewsAsia notes, remain far from an agreement on ending the war.
