According to the daily's sources, the Republican was to “advise the President of Russia not to escalate the war in Ukraine and remind him of the significant military presence Washington in Europe”.
Vladimir Putin talked to Donald Trump? “It's pure fiction”
As reported by the Russian TASS agency, a Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Pieskow denies this information. – There was no conversation. This is completely untrue, it is pure fiction, he emphasized.
He described the Western media reports as “the most extraordinary example of the quality of information published today, sometimes even by quite respected media.”
Earlier, the Kremlin spokesman emphasized that Putin is ready to talk to Trump on Ukraine, but the two leaders have not been in contact since the announcement election results in the United States.
Trump-Putin conversation. The Ukrainian authorities deny it
The Ukrainian authorities also denied the newspaper's findings that Kyiv was prejudiced against Father Putin-Trump conversation.
– Reports that the Ukrainian side was informed about the planned conversation are false. Therefore, Ukraine could neither consent to this conversation nor protest, commented the spokesman of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Heorhij Tychyj.
Donald Trump has repeatedly announced that he will end the war in Ukraine after taking office. His advisors were supposed to have developed two scenarios that assumed more than that handing over part of Ukrainian territories to Russiabut also Kiev's resignation from accession to NATO.