“President Putin said very clearly that he had to react to the most recent attack on the airfields,” Trump wrote in his online network Truth Social. According to him, the conversation took an hour and 15 minutes.
In contrast to the end of May, Trump’s contribution to Truth Social now no frustration. At the end of May, in view of the continued Russian attacks on Ukraine, Trump had expressed unusually sharp words about the Kremlin boss and explained that Putin had “gone completely crazy”.
The Kremlin rated the renewed phone call between Putin and Trump as “productive”. “At the end of the conversation, both heads of state described the exchange of views as positive and (…) productive,” said Putin’s consultant Juri Uschakow in front of reporters. Both had confirmed their wish to “stay in constant contact”. With a view to the Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian military bases at the weekend, Trump emphasized that the United States had not been informed in advance.
According to Kremlin, Putin also called Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday about the Ukraine conflict. Putin said that he wanted to achieve peace with “political” and “diplomatic” means, explained the Kremlin. However, he also said that “the regime in Kiev relied on an escalation of the conflict” and exerted “sabotage files against civilian infrastructure on Russian territory”.
According to the Vatican, the Pope asked Putin on the phone to make a “gesture in favor of peace”. The head of the Catholic Church also emphasized the importance of the dialogue for the production of “positive contacts between the parties and the search for solutions for the conflict”. It was the first phone call between the two since Pope Leo XIV was taken.
After the phone call between Trump and Putin, Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj asked the allies of his country not to show any weakness towards the Kremlin boss. “If he does not feel strength or pressure, but weakness, he commits even more crimes,” said Selenskyj in online networks.
In addition to Ukraine, according to the US President, Iran was also the topic of calling between him and Putin on Wednesday. Trump accused Tehran of slowing negotiations on a new nuclear agreement. “In my opinion, Iran delayed its decision on this very important matter, and we will need a final answer in a very short time,” said the US President. Kremlin boss Putin had proposed to take part in the talks with Iran.
In mid -April, Washington and Tehran had recorded the talks about a possible new nuclear agreement. The first five rounds of negotiations remained without result. Trump has been going on a new agreement since his return to the White House – and threatens Iran in the event of a failure of the talks with a military approach.
