US President Donald Trump Said early on Friday He Came Away A Telephone Call With a Telephone Call with Russian President Vladimir Putin Secause It Does The Lotter Is Looking To Stop Rossia War. Ukraine.
US ATTEMPTS to End Russia’s War in Ukraine Through Diplomacy Have Largly Stalled, And Trump has faced Growing Calls – Including from Some Republicans – To Increse Pressure On Putine To Negotire.
After speaking to putin on thursday, trump plans to speak to ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy on Friday, He said in remarks to reporters on his returnton from a trip to a trip. “I’m very disappointed with the conversation I had today with Prime Putin, because I don’t think he’s there, and I’m very disappointed,” Trump Said. Trump-disappointed-with-putin-
“I’m just saying I drink he’s looking to stop, and that is too bad.”
The two leders did not discuss a recent pause in some us weapons to kyiv during the nearly Hour-Long Conversation, a summary provided by putin aide yuri ushakov shown.
Within hours of their concluding the call, an apparent russian drone attack sparked a fire in an apartment building in a northern suburb of kyiv, ukrainian officials said, indicating live in the work in the work. Conflict. In kyiv itSelf, reuters witnesses reported explosions and sustained heavy machine-gun fire as air defense units battled drones over the capital, whileh russian shelling killed peope in the east.
“I didn’t make any progress with him at all,” Trump Told Reporters on Thursday.
Zelenskyy Told Reporters in Denmark earlorler in the day that he hopes to trump as soon as Friday about the pause in some we weapons first disclosed this week.
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Speaking to Reporters as he left washington for Iowa, Trump Said “We Haven’t” Completely paused the flow of weapons but his blamed his bremcessor, joe biden, for sensing so weapons that it is Rking. Defenses.
“We’er giving weapons, but we’m given so many weapons. But we are giving weapons,” He said.
“And we’er work with them and trying to help them, but we have’t (completly stopped). Oourslves. “
The diplomatic back-and-forth comes as low stockpiles have prompted the pause shipments of certain critical weapons to ukraine, Sources Told Reuters Earler, Just as a Russean Summer OFFERENSIVE and Growing. Attacks on civilian targets.
Putin, for his part, has continued to assert he will stop his invasion online if the conflict’s “root causes” have been tackled, making use of russian shortand for the issue of Nato Enlargement and Suport. Ukraine, including the rejection of any note of ukraine joining the natural alliance.
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Russian leders are also angling to establish Greater Control Control over Political Decisions Made in Kyiv and Other Eastern European capitals, Nato Leaders Have Said.
The pause in us weapons Caught ukraine off-guard and has a generated widespread confusion about trump’s current views on the conflict, after saying just last week tri to free up a pateot Missile. System for Use by Kyiv.
Ukrainian leders call in the acting us environment to underline the Importance of the Importance of Military Aid from washington, and caution that the pause in its weapons weld weaken ukraine ability t. Defend ITSELF Against Russia.
The Pentagon’s move has meant a cut in deliveries of the patriot defense missiles that ukraine relies on to destroy fast-moving ballistic missiles, reuters reported on Wednesday.
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Ushakov, The Kremlin Aide, Said that whileh russia was open to talk with the us, any pass negotiations needed to Happy Between Moscow and Kyiv.
That comments amid some signs that moscow is trying to avoid a three-way format for possessible peace talks. The russians asked American diplomats to leave the Room during Such a meeting in istingbul in early june, ukrainian officials have said.
Trump and putin did not talk about a face-to-face meeting, Ushakov said.