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Reuters

US President Donald Trump has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine, The New York Post reported late on Saturday.
In an interview aboard Air Force One on Friday, Trump said that he had “better not say,” when asked how many times the two leaders have spoken.
“He (Putin) wants to see people stop dying,” Trump told the Post.
Neither the Kremlin nor the White House immediately responded to request for comment outside business hours.
In late January, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Putin is ready to hold a phone call with Trump and Moscow is waiting for word from Washington that it is ready too.
On Friday, Trump said he would probably meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next week to discuss the end of the war.
The war, which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, will mark its third anniversary on February 24. Thousands of people, the vast majority of them Ukrainian, have been killed during the conflict.
Trump told the Post that he has “always had a good relationship with Putin” and that he has a concrete plan to end the war. But he did not disclose further details.
“I hope it’s fast,” Trump said. “Every day people are dying. This war is so bad in Ukraine. I want to end this damn thing.”


Trump’s comments came as Moscow said it was yet to see any positive steps from the US administration on disarmament.
“We are ready to maintain smooth relations of cooperation with any American administration,” Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, said in an interview published on Sunday.
“We would be ready to do this within the framework of the Conference on Disarmament,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying. “So far, we do not see any positive progress in this regard in Geneva.”
The conference, an international disarmament forum that meets in the Swiss city, has negotiated a number of major multilateral arms limitation and disarmament agreements, including on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Putin has indicated that he sees Trump’s second term as a chance for a new era in US-Russian relations.
“We are, of course, closely monitoring the rhetoric and first steps of the representatives of the new US administration,” Gatilov said. “We expect that the Americans will move from words to action, especially since they have said a lot since January 20.”


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The US president says he held phone talks with the Russian leader to discuss the end of the conflict


The US president says he held phone talks with the Russian leader to discuss the end of the conflict.
