Russia denies that a meeting is planned between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. A Kremlin spokesman said there were no “concrete plans” for the Russian president to contact the 47th US president, although Trump had previously acknowledged that such a meeting could take place. .
On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied media reports about a telephone conversation between US President-elect Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin.
Conversation between President Trump and President Putin. Kremlin denies this
Peskov said Putin has no “concrete plans” to meet with Trump.
Earlier, the American newspaper “Washington Post” reported that after the victory of the Republican Party, the presidents established contacts with each other, and the entrepreneurs did, among other things: “We advise the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and to remind him of Washington's significant military presence in Europe.”
The WP interlocutor added that the leaders discussed achieving peace in Europe and that President Trump expressed interest in another round of talks on an early end to the war in Ukraine.
See also: Media: Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin
In addition, according to information published by Washington newspapers, Ukraine was warned in advance about the telephone contact between the US and Russian leaders and did not express any objections to the matter. However, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry later denied that Kiev had received any information on the matter.
After Trump's victory in the US presidential election on Thursday, he admitted on NBC that he was looking forward to meeting with President Vladimir Putin. – I'll talk to you, he said. He also added that he had spoken to “probably” 70 other leaders so far.
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