Putin tells Trump he won’t back down from Ukraine goals
US President Donald Trump said in a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin to stand quickly to the Ukrainian War, while a Kremlin’s deputy Russian President said that the President of the Russian would force Moscow to solve the “root causes” of the conflict.
According to a reading provided by Putin Aide Yuri Ushakov, the two leaders did not discuss a final pause in some arms shipments to Kiev during a almost one hour call on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that he hoped to talk to Trump about the ongoing pause of some arms posts announced at the beginning of Friday for the first time this week on Friday.
Trump did not comment on the conversation with Putin immediately, but he said he would talk to the Russian leader on social media.
“Root Causes” has become Russian stenography for NATO growth and Western support for the West, including the rejection of the concept of participation in the NATO alliance of Ukraine. NATO leaders, Russian leaders, Kiev and other Eastern European capitals of political decisions made to establish more control, he said.
Sources come to Reuters, because diplomatic diplomatic advanced and Forth paused the sending of some critical weapons to Ukraine due to low stocks.
This decision led Ukraine to underline the importance of military aid from Washington on Wednesday, and to be careful that the movement would weaken Ukraine’s ability to defense against Russian air strikes and warfare progress.
Reuters reported on Wednesday, the Pentagon’s movement has led to a deduction in the delivery of Patriot Air defense missiles, which Ukraine is partially based to destroy fast -moving ballistic missiles.
Kremlin Assistant Ushakov said that weapons deliveries to Ukraine did not occur during the Trump-Putin phone call.
Ushakov, although Russia is open to continue to talk to the United States, Moscow and Kiev, any peace negotiation should be done, he added.
This interpretation is among some indicators that Moscow is trying to avoid a three -sided format for any peace negotiations. Ukrainian officials, the Russians at the beginning of June in such a meeting in Istanbul, said that they wanted American diplomats to leave the room.
Ushakov said Trump and Putin did not talk about a face -to -face meeting.
