Fiction: Kremlin denies report claiming Trump, Putin discussed Ukraine war
US President-elect Donald Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone and discussed ending the war in Ukraine amongst many other important topics, claimed a media report.
“The two men discussed the goal of peace on the European continent and Trump expressed an interest in follow-up conversations to discuss 'the resolution of Ukraine’s war soon,” one of the people said,” The Washington Post said in an exclusive report published on Sunday.
One former US official, who was familiar with the Putin call, said that it was likely that Trump does not want to enter office with a fresh crisis in Ukraine, prompted by Russian escalation, “giving him the incentive to want to keep the war from worsening,” the daily said.
“During the call, which Trump took from his resort in Florida, he advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of Washington's sizable military presence in Europe, said a person on the condition of anonymity.
However, Kremlin spokesman Peskov in Moscow said the Western media reports of the phone call between Putin and Trump are ‘untrue’. “There was no conversation...This is completely untrue; it's pure fiction,” Peskov said.
Meanwhile, Steven Cheung, Trump's communications director, said he would not comment on the private calls between President-elect Trump and other world leaders.
