Fake news? The Kremlin denied this Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have spoken since the latter's victory in the American presidential election, as reported by the newspaper Washington Post.
“This absolutely does not correspond to reality, it is a pure invention”, “it is simply false information”, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists. “At the moment, there are no concrete plans” for such a discussion, the spokesperson added. The two men said they were ready to talk last week. Citing anonymous sources, the American daily assured that during a first interview, Donald Trump asked the Russian leader not to provoke an escalation in Ukraine.
The subject of the war in Ukraine
A spokesperson for the US president-elect's transition team said they would not “comment on private calls between President Trump and other leaders”. Donald Trump spoke last week with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Washington Post claims that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed the goal of peace on the European continent and Republican Trump said he hoped to have follow-up conversations to discuss “resolving the war in Ukraine soon.”
According to Dmitri Peskov, Vladimir Putin repeated last week “that he is open to all negotiations” with the West on Ukraine, but “no signal has been sent” by them. “If they say that signals will come, we have to wait for them. For the moment, no signal has arrived,” he added.
