Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin reportedly met to discuss “resolving the war in Ukraine”
Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday and asked him not to provoke an escalation in Ukraine, the American daily Washington Post reported on Sunday. This would be the first telephone conversation between the two men since Mr. Trump won the US presidential election last Tuesday.
They discussed the goal of peace on the European continent and Donald Trump said he hoped to have follow-up conversations to discuss “the resolution of the war in Ukraine soon”, according to the American daily’s anonymous sources. Questioned by AFP, Donald Trump’s entourage did not confirm this information.
Foreign policy issues will be on the menu of the meeting between Joe Biden and Donald Trump scheduled in the Oval Office on Wednesday to begin the transfer of power. Donald Trump, who will return to the White House on January 20, has regularly claimed to be able to end the war “in one day”, without ever detailing how he would go about it. But this could probably involve a deal that would require kyiv to cede part of its territory to Moscow.
