Kremlin denies President Putin phone call with Trump

“It’s completely untrue. It’s just in their imagination and it’s disinformation. There was no conversation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press conference today.

Mr. Peskov’s comments came after the Washington Post on November 10 cited sources familiar with the situation as saying that Mr. Trump called the Russian leader from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on November 7, shortly after the Republican politician was determined to be the winner of the US presidential election.

Reuters sources also said that President-elect Trump called President Putin “in recent days” to advise the Russian leader not to escalate the war in Ukraine.

“This is the clearest example of the quality of information being published today, sometimes even in quite reputable outlets,” the Kremlin spokesman added.

Asked if President Putin had plans to contact Mr Trump, Peskov said “there are no specific plans at the moment”.

The Washington Post wrote that during the phone call, President-elect Trump urged Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded the Kremlin leader of “the large-scale US military presence in Europe”. The two sides also expressed their desire for further dialogue to discuss “how to resolve the conflict in Ukraine soon”.

“Mr. Trump briefly mentioned the territorial issue,” the sources said, without elaborating.

The US President-elect has not commented on the phone call information. Steven Cheung, Mr. Trump’s communications director, stated that “he does not comment on President Trump’s private calls with world leaders.”

On November 7, Mr. Trump revealed that he had spoken with about 70 world leaders in the past 24 hours, but did not mention President Putin. Peskov said the same day that President Putin could have a phone call with President-elect Trump before his inauguration on January 20, 2025.

Donald Trump’s election as US President is expected to have a major impact on the war in Ukraine, as he has repeatedly declared that he would quickly end the conflict after his election and threatened to cut off aid to Kiev. Experts say any agreement to quickly end the conflict in Ukraine will include a clause requiring Kiev to give up some of the territory controlled by Moscow.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that giving up territory or meeting other demands would only encourage Russia to engage in further aggression. Zelensky spoke to Trump on November 6, describing the conversation as “excellent” and the two sides agreed to “maintain close dialogue and promote cooperation.”

Source: vnexpress.net (Huyen Le – According to TASS , AFP , Reuters )