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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy each spoke by telephone with U.S. President Donald Trump connected Sunday, arsenic Trump marked his 80th day and the warfare successful Ukraine remained a flashpoint up of this week’s G7 summit.
Putin’s telephone with Trump lasted conscionable nether an hour, according to Russian statesmanlike adjutant Yuri Ushakov, who briefed reporters afterward.
On Ukraine, Ushakov said Trump emphasized the request to extremity hostilities and stated his readiness to power European allies and Kyiv toward that goal, including astatine the upcoming G7 summit.
Trump besides said that caller strikes connected civilian targets successful Russia complicate a colony — though the White House has not confirmed that, nor commented connected the telephone — and said that ending the warfare rapidly could unfastened the doorway to “a genuinely caller prime of U.S.-Russian relations,” Ushakov quoted him arsenic saying.
Putin, for his part, argued that attacks connected Russian civilian infrastructure by Kyiv would not alteration Ukraine’s presumption connected the battlefield, and said that if Zelenskyy wants a gathering with him, “let him travel to Moscow,” according to Ushakov.
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are expected to question to Russia soon, Ushakov said.
The leaders besides discussed Iran, wherever Trump said a U.S. statement with Tehran was adjacent and that helium hoped the results of the talks could beryllium made nationalist today, Ushakov said.
Zelenskyy said successful a connection connected Telegram Sunday that helium had a “wonderful conversation” with Trump.
Beyond congratulating Trump connected his birthday, the Ukrainian president said helium thanked the U.S. president for supporting Ukraine.
He said they discussed “what could assistance bring bid person now,” without providing details. Zelenskyy besides informed Trump astir however Ukraine’s presumption on the eastbound beforehand enactment has improved and strengthened.
“We agreed to sermon much during our gathering astatine the G7 summit,” helium said.
The calls came arsenic Trump prepared to people his day with a UFC combat connected the White House tract Sunday evening, an lawsuit without precedent successful American history. Once it concludes, Trump is acceptable to alert overnight to France for the G7 summit, wherever Ukraine is expected to beryllium a large taxable of treatment Tuesday and Zelenskyy is owed to articulation the gathering.
Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine has agelong frustrated Trump, who arsenic a campaigner claimed helium could extremity the struggle wrong 24 hours of taking office. He has since stopped making specified claims and tends to pivot distant from the taxable erstwhile pressed. He has besides grown progressively vexed by the warfare betwixt Israel and Iran, which has driven up state prices, rattled fiscal markets and stoked concerns astir inflation.
The diplomatic exchanges came against the backdrop of continued fighting. Ukrainian drone attacks killed 1 idiosyncratic and wounded 9 others overnight successful a residential gathering successful the determination superior of Russia’s Oryol region, Gov. Andrei Klychkov said Sunday. Another drone onslaught killed 1 idiosyncratic Sunday successful Russia's Bryansk region, section authorities said.
A abstracted drone onslaught deed substance retention facilities successful Russia’s Yaroslavl region, astir 440 miles from the Ukrainian border, sparking fires. Zelenskyy said the onslaught had deed “an lipid installation that was important for the reserve of the aggressor state.”
Ukraine has stepped up attacks connected Russian lipid and state infrastructure successful caller months, arguing the assemblage funds Moscow’s invasion.
Separately, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Sunday that the U.K. is investigating a sanctioned tanker, the Smyrtos, suspected of belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet” of vessels utilized to evade sanctions tied to the war.
British forces boarded and detained the vas successful the English Channel, successful what the Defense Ministry called the archetypal U.K.-led cognition of its kind, carried retired successful coordination with French authorities.
“This cognition delivers yet different stroke to Russia and reminds those fueling Putin’s warfare successful Ukraine that they cannot hide,” Starmer said.
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AP writer Will Waissert contributed to this study from Washington.
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