the president-elect of the United States spoke with Vladimir Putin, according to “The Washington Post”

This telephone exchange, which has not been officially confirmed, was an opportunity for Donald Trump to discuss his desire for an early resolution of the conflict in Ukraine.

The call had until then remained secret. Donald Trump spoke on Thursday, November 7, with the Russian head of state, Vladimir Putin, the American daily reported on Sunday. The Washington Post. The American president-elect reportedly asked him not to provoke an escalation in Ukraine, in this appeal that his entourage, questioned by AFP, has not confirmed at this stage, any more than the Kremlin.

The two men discussed the goal of peace on the European continent and Donald Trump said he hoped to have follow-up conversations to discuss “resolution of the war in Ukraine soon”according to the newspaper's anonymous sources. This would be their first telephone conversation since the Republican candidate won the presidential election on Wednesday. Donald Trump had already announced that he had spoken on Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Donald Trump, who will return to the White House on January 20, has regularly claimed he can end the war in Ukraine “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 land issue would have been raised with Vladimir Putin on Thursday, according to sources in Washington Post.

On Sunday evening, the German government reported an exchange between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Donald Trump during the day. “Both exchanged views on German-US relations and current geopolitical issues”declared the German chancellery. “They also said they were ready to work together for a return to peace in Europe”he added.