President Donald Trump of the United States said he has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone about ending the war in Ukraine.
Trump, who has promised to end the war in Ukraine, said last week that the war was a bloodbath and that his team had had some very good talks.
Speaking in an interview aboard Air Force One on Friday, 7 February, 2025, Trump told the New York Post that he had better not say when asked how many times he and Putin had spoken.
“He (Putin) wants to see people stop dying,” Trump said.
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that many different communications are emerging.
“These communications are conducted through different channels. I personally may not know something or be unaware of something. Therefore, in this case, I can neither confirm nor deny it,” Peskov said.
The conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014 after a pro-Russian president was toppled in Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution and Russia annexed Crimea, with Russian-backed separatist forces fighting Ukraine’s armed forces.
