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. 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.
Return on January 20 to the White House
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.
This question of land would also have been raised, according to the same sources.
The Kremlin estimated on Sunday that the Republican had sent “positive signals” during the campaign regarding the conflict, since he spoke of a possible “peace” and did not show a “will to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia “.
To “place Ukraine in the strongest possible position on the battlefield so that it is in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table”, the Biden administration plans to spend the remaining six billion dollars before the arrival of Donald Trump in power.
Donald Trump also spoke with Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday. An exchange in which billionaire Elon Musk participated and described as “excellent” by the Ukrainian president.
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