Trump didn’t call Putin after meeting Zelensky — despite his promise. ‘The Russian president is always happy to talk,’ the Kremlin noted.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Donald Trump did not call Vladimir Putin after the U.S. president’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Mr. Trump was apparently very busy after all his contacts in Ankara, so no one called yesterday,” Peskov said, adding that Putin was “always happy to talk.”
Trump met with Zelensky on July 8 during the NATO summit in Ankara. Before the meeting, he publicly said he would call Putin after it concluded.
At the meeting itself, Trump promised to issue Ukraine a license to produce Patriot missiles and welcomed long-range Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory, calling them “an escalation, but it’s also an escalation that could help lead to an end [to the war].”
The office of the Ukrainian president said the Trump-Zelensky meeting was “one of the best, and possibly the best” ever. “This is a powerful signal to Moscow. Both the Ukraine-U.S. meeting and the summit itself, the discussions at it, and the closing declaration,” said Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Sergiy Kyslytsya.
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