Trump disputes Kremlin's claim about Ukraine aid discussion with Putin – Fox News
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During a telephone conversation with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump did not discuss the termination of military aid to Ukraine. However, the Kremlin had previously stated this.
The Head of the White House reported this during an interview with Fox News.
The journalist drew Trump's attention to reports from the Kremlin media, which reported on Putin's demand to "immediately terminate aid to Ukraine" as a condition for reaching a peace agreement.
However, Trump denied these allegations, noting that this issue was not discussed in their conversation. As he said, what the Kremlin media wrote about was not the topic of the discussion at all.
"I think we had a great conversation. It lasted almost two hours. We talked about a lot of things on the path to peace. We talked about many things, but we never discussed aid," Trump stressed.
In addition, during the conversation, Putin allegedly told the American leader that he would not like to see him as "his enemy."
Trump also said that the United States wants to establish trade with Russia, which has "some valuable things for us, including large deposits of rare earth minerals" and "a large piece of land."
"They have some very valuable things for us, including very large reserves of rare earth resources. They have a lot of land. And they also have things that we could use, frankly, and that other people could use. I think Russia wants to come to an understanding with the United States," the White House President emphasized.
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As Bloomberg reported, after Trump's conversation with Putin, the Kremlin media wrote that the Russian leader emphasized the complete cessation of international aid to Ukraine and the cessation of the provision of intelligence for a peaceful resolution of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
It should be noted that the telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin became the longest in the history of telephone conversations between Russian and US presidents. They discussed Russia's war against Ukraine. The Kremlin also said that Trump supported Putin's idea of holding hockey games between the United States and Russia.
In addition, peace talks on the Russian-Ukrainian war should "begin immediately in the Middle East." The leaders agreed that the movement towards peace would begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire and technical negotiations "on the implementation of a naval ceasefire in the Black Sea, a complete ceasefire and permanent peace."
Following the talks, it became known that Putin rejected Trump's proposal for an unconditional, complete ceasefire. In the context of introducing a 30-day truce, the Russians demanded a complete cessation of foreign military assistance and the provision of intelligence information to Ukraine.
