The US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier that day did not result in any progress to end the war in Ukraine.
“I didn’t make any progress with him at all,” Trump told in Washington, before boarding a plane to Iowa. He added that he was “not happy” with the ongoing war in Ukraine that entering the fourth year.
The call took place amid Washington’s failed attempts to end the war and two days after the White House decided to suspended weapons shipment to Ukraine on the ground that it was running low on supplies. Commenting on this suspension, Trump said the US paused weapons shipment to Ukraine " to make sure we have enough for ourselves." Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said the issue of suspension of Weapons deliveries to Ukraine was not discussed during the phone call that lasted for more than an hour. Ushakov said Putin told Trump that he was not going to give up on his goals in Ukraine and that he wanted the “root causes of the conflict” to be addressed. The Kremlin has long opposed the NATO’s eastward expansion and the Western military aid to Kyiv, and set these demands as a precondition for ending the invasion of Ukraine.
The phone call between Putin and Trump was followed by Russia’s massive drone attacks on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv that injured around twenty people and damaged infrastructure in six of Kyiv’s ten districts. The city’s railway system was crippled and falling debris burned building and cars.
