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Phone call with Trump, Kremlin: Putin made it clear that he will not back down from his goals in Ukraine

Phone call with Trump, Kremlin: Putin made it clear that he will not back down

Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call on Thursday that Moscow wants a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine but will not back down from its initial goals, a Kremlin aide said.
In a wide-ranging conversation that also touched on Iran and the Middle East, Trump “again raised the issue of an early end to military action” in Ukraine, the aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters

"Vladimir Putin, for his part, noted that we continue to seek a political and negotiated solution to the conflict," Ushakov said.
Putin briefed Trump on the implementation of agreements reached between Russia and Ukraine last month on the exchange of prisoners of war and dead soldiers, Ushakov said, and told him that Moscow was ready to continue negotiations with Kiev.
"Our president also said that Russia will achieve the goals it has set: namely, the elimination of the known root causes that led to the current state of affairs, to the current acute confrontation, and Russia will not retreat from these goals," he added.

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