US President Donald Trump said that during a call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, he did not make any progress to end the Russian war in Ukraine and expressed frustration from the ongoing conflict.
“We had a call, it was quite a long call. We talked about many things, including Iran. We also spoke, as you know, the war with Ukraine, and I’m not happy about it,” Trump told reporters on Thursday evening.
“No, I didn’t make any progress,” he said as he asked about their conversations.
This was the sixth publicly recognized challenge between two leaders because Trump returned to the White House in January.
At the beginning of Thursday, the Kremlin also indicated that there was little progress at the end of the war – the key goal of the US President’s foreign policy.
“Donald Trump again raised the question of early hostility,” said Kremlin foreign policy Yuri Ushakov to journalists after a call that lasted almost one hour. Putin said that Russia “does not return” from its war goals, Ushakov added.
He described the conversation as “Frank, business and specific”, adding that the leaders agreed to continue the discussions soon. Putin and Trump talked about Iran and the situation in the Middle East “considerably in detail”, Ushakov added.
There was no discussion about the meeting between the two leaders and did not touch the US decision to stop supplies of weapons to Ukraine, he said.
Trump and Putin spoke after the Pentagon announced this week that he had stopped the transmission of artillery bikes and air defensive bikes and quoted the revision of US supplies to Ukraine because he weighs the need to save weapons for other threats. This is because Russia has intensified the attacks of rockets and drones on Ukraine in recent weeks.
According to the person who is with this matter, Trump is likely to have a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenky.
The US President led the campaign for the rapid end of the war in Ukraine and quoted his relationship with Putin, but also threatened to leave if both parties could not agree to the conditions. Last month, Trump expressed his frustration at the pace of progress and said that it might be necessary to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before trying to convey a peace agreement.
While Trump squeezed the supplies of weapons to Ukraine, Russia has not saved any other sanctions. This is despite the dismissal of Zelenka and European leaders to increase pressure on Putin.
This week, Putin agreed in interviews with French President Emmanuel Macron to coordinate his approach to Iran, the first telephone call between two leaders since 2022.
Macron wants to coordinate with permanent members of the UN Security Council for Iran’s suffering to accept the return of the International Inspections of the Agency for Atomic Energy, Bloomberg reported this week.
The US, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom are permanent members of the Security Council.
With the help of Stephanie Lai and Ben Holland.
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