Putin and Trump to speak by phone in their 6th conversation this year

MOSCOW – U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they volition talk by telephone Thursday, their sixth publically disclosed chat since Trump returned to the White House this year.

Trump said successful a societal media station the telephone volition instrumentality spot astatine 10 a.m. EDT. Neither person offered immoderate contiguous details connected the topic.

Their erstwhile publically known telephone came June 14, a time aft Israel attacked Iran.

Their resumed contacts appeared to bespeak some leaders’ involvement successful mending U.S.-Russian ties that person plummeted to their lowest constituent since the Cold War amid the 3-year-old conflict successful Ukraine.

Thursday's telephone follows the Pentagon's confirmation that it’s pausing shipment of immoderate weapons to Ukraine arsenic it goes astir a planetary reappraisal of U.S. subject stockpiles. The weapons being held up for Ukraine see aerial defence missiles, precision-guided artillery and different equipment.

The details connected the weapons successful immoderate of the paused deliveries were confirmed by a U.S. authoritative and erstwhile nationalist information authoritative acquainted with the matter. They some requested anonymity to sermon what is are being held up arsenic the Pentagon has yet to supply details.

On Tuesday, Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron held their archetypal nonstop telephone telephone successful astir 3 years.

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Associated Press writer Aamer Madhani successful Washington contributed.

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