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Telegraph
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Trump ‘disappointed' with Putin after phone call
Donald Trump was 'disappointed' by a phone call with Vladimir Putin, after the Russian president rejected his call for a ceasefire. The pair spoke for less than an hour on Thursday — a short conversation by their standards — as Mr Trump faces mounting pressure to push Putin to end the war. 'I'm very disappointed with the conversation I had today with President Putin, because I don't think he's there,' he told reporters. 'I'm just saying I don't think he's looking to stop, and that's too bad.' Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov claimed Putin and Mr Trump were 'on the same page'. The US president disagreed: 'I didn't make any progress with him at all.' Hours later, a Russian drone strike hit an apartment block in northern Kyiv, while explosions and gunfire were reported in the centre as air defences engaged more drones overhead. Russia fired 550 drones and missiles across the country overnight, another record attack. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said in Denmark he hoped to speak to Mr Trump today about America's weapons pause. Mr Trump said the US had not halted deliveries entirely, telling reporters: 'We're giving weapons, but we've given so many weapons.'
Al Jazeera
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Russia ‘will not back down' on Ukraine war goals, Putin tells Trump
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his United States counterpart, Donald Trump, that Moscow will not give up on its goal of eliminating the 'root causes' of the war in Ukraine. 'Russia will not back down,' Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters although he added that Putin had also expressed a 'readiness' to 'seek a political and negotiated solution to the conflict' during his one-hour phone conversation with Trump on Thursday. The phrase 'root causes' is shorthand for the Kremlin's argument that it was compelled to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 to prevent the country from joining NATO and being used by the Western alliance as a launchpad to attack Russia – arguments rejected by Kyiv and its allies but supported in part by Trump. The phone call, their sixth since Trump started his second term in January, came the day after the Pentagon confirmed it was halting some weapons deliveries to Kyiv, including air defence missiles and precision-guided artillery. They were promised under President Joe Biden's administration. The announcement was made as Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine Trump and Putin did not broach the subject of the paused weapons deliveries, according to the Kremlin aide, who said the US president had raised the issue of bringing about a swift end to the war. While the prospect of a face-to-face meeting was not discussed, the two leaders agreed to keep talking. Although Trump has tried to mediate in the Ukraine war, he has little progress to show for it. Putin has thus far rejected Washington's proposal for an unconditional ceasefire, and there was nothing in the Kremlin readout to suggest any shift in his position. Ukraine supported the proposal. Ushakov said that while Russia was open to continuing to speak with the US, any peace negotiations needed to occur between Moscow and Kyiv. He made the comment amid some indications that Moscow is trying to avoid a trilateral format for any peace negotiations. Ukrainian officials have said Russian negotiators asked US diplomats to leave the room during a meeting in Istanbul in early June. Putin and Trump last talked in mid-June when Putin offered to mediate in the recent 12-day Iran-Israel war. Trump responded to Putin's offer by switching the focus back to Ukraine, saying: 'No, I don't need help with Iran. I need help with you.' Ushakov said that during Thursday's call, Putin emphasised the need to resolve all 'disputes, disagreements and conflict situations' regarding Iran through diplomatic means. The US waded into the Israel-Iran conflict last month, bombing three of Iran's nuclear sites, a move condemned by Moscow as unprovoked and illegal. Earlier on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met European Union leaders in Denmark, saying doubts over US military aid to Ukraine reinforced the need to 'strengthen our cooperation and coordination through the EU, NATO and also in our direct relations'. Trump has in effect nixed Ukraine's attempts to join the NATO military alliance. Zelenskyy told reporters he hopes to speak to Trump as soon as Friday about the pause in weapons shipments.
France 24
03-07-2025
- Politics
- France 24
Putin says he won't back down from Ukraine goals in hour-long call with Trump
Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump in a phone call on Thursday that Moscow wants a negotiated end to the Ukraine war but will not step back from its original goals, a Kremlin aide said. In a wide-ranging conversation that also covered Iran and the Middle East, Trump "again raised the issue of an early end to military action" in Ukraine, the aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters. "Vladimir Putin, for his part, noted that we continue to seek a political and negotiated solution to the conflict," Ushakov said. Putin briefed Trump on the implementation of agreements reached between Russia and Ukraine last month to exchange prisoners-of-war and dead soldiers, Ushakov said, and told him that Moscow was ready to continue negotiations with Kyiv. "Our president also said that Russia will achieve the goals it has set: that is, the elimination of the well-known root causes that led to the current state of affairs, to the current acute confrontation, and Russia will not back down from these goals," he added. There was nothing in the Kremlin readout to suggest that Putin had made any shift in Moscow's position during the conversation with Trump, who took office with a promise to end the war swiftly but has voiced frequent frustration with the lack of progress between the two sides. The phrase "root causes" is shorthand for the Kremlin's argument that it was compelled to go to war in Ukraine to prevent the country from joining NATO and being used by the Western alliance as a launch pad to attack Russia. Ukraine and its European allies say that is a specious pretext for what they call an imperial-style war, but Trump in previous public comments has shown sympathy with Moscow's refusal to accept NATO membership for Ukraine. Putin and Trump did not talk about the US decision to halt some shipments of critical weapons to Ukraine, Ushakov said. On Iran, he said, "the Russian side emphasised the importance of resolving all disputes, disagreements and conflict situations exclusively by political and diplomatic means". Trump last month sent US military bombers to strike three Iranian nuclear sites, in a move condemned by Moscow as unprovoked and illegal.
Reuters
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Putin tells Trump he won't back down from goals in Ukraine, Kremlin says
MOSCOW, July 3 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call on Thursday that Moscow wants a negotiated end to the Ukraine war but will not step back from its original goals, a Kremlin aide said. In a wide-ranging conversation that also covered Iran and the Middle East, Trump "again raised the issue of an early end to military action" in Ukraine, the aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters. "Vladimir Putin, for his part, noted that we continue to seek a political and negotiated solution to the conflict," Ushakov said. Putin briefed Trump on the implementation of agreements reached between Russia and Ukraine last month to exchange prisoners-of-war and dead soldiers, Ushakov said, and told him that Moscow was ready to continue negotiations with Kyiv. "Our president also said that Russia will achieve the goals it has set: that is, the elimination of the well-known root causes that led to the current state of affairs, to the current acute confrontation, and Russia will not back down from these goals," he added. There was nothing in the Kremlin readout to suggest that Putin had made any shift in Moscow's position during the conversation with Trump, who took office with a promise to end the war swiftly but has voiced frequent frustration with the lack of progress between the two sides. The phrase "root causes" is shorthand for the Kremlin's argument that it was compelled to go to war in Ukraine to prevent the country from joining NATO and being used by the Western alliance as a launch pad to attack Russia. Ukraine and its European allies say that is a specious pretext for what they call an imperial-style war, but Trump in previous public comments has shown sympathy with Moscow's refusal to accept NATO membership for Ukraine. Putin and Trump did not talk about the U.S. decision to halt some shipments of critical weapons to Ukraine, Ushakov said. On Iran, he said, "the Russian side emphasised the importance of resolving all disputes, disagreements and conflict situations exclusively by political and diplomatic means". Trump last month sent U.S. military bombers to strike three Iranian nuclear sites, in a move condemned by Moscow as unprovoked and illegal.
Bloomberg
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Trump Says Putin Wants to Settle the War in Ukraine
President Donald Trump says he will be speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin, without specifying when. Trump says Putin wants to settle the war in Ukraine, but it's taken longer than he had expected. Trump speaks at the NATO summit. (Source: Bloomberg)
