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U.S. President Donald Trump said helium made nary advancement with Vladimir Putin connected ending the Ukraine warfare successful a telephone connected Thursday (July 3, 2025), arsenic the Kremlin insisted the Russian President would instrumentality to his aims successful the conflict.
Mr. Trump's grim appraisal came arsenic U.S.-led bid talks connected ending the much than three-year-old struggle successful Ukraine person stalled, and aft Washington paused immoderate weapons shipments to Kyiv.
"It was a beauteous agelong call, we talked astir a batch of things, including Iran, and we besides talked about, arsenic you know, the warfare with Ukraine. And I'm not blessed astir that," Mr. Trump told reporters.
Asked if helium had moved person to a woody to extremity the war, Trump replied: "No, I didn't marque immoderate advancement with him astatine all."
Mr. Trump's presumption of the telephone was unusually bleak. After astir of his erstwhile 5 calls with Mr. Putin since returning to powerfulness successful January helium has fixed optimistic reports of advancement towards a deal.
But helium has shown expanding vexation with Putin aft an aboriginal pivot towards the Russian leader. In caller weeks helium knocked backmost Putin's connection to mediate successful the Iran-Israel conflict, telling him to absorption connected the Ukraine warfare instead.
In Moscow, the Kremlin said the telephone lasted astir an hr and said that Putin had insisted helium would not springiness up connected Russia's goals.
"Our president said that Russia volition execute the aims it set, that is to accidental the elimination of the basal causes that led to the existent authorities of affairs," Kremlin adjutant Yuri Ushakov told reporters.
"Russia volition not springiness up connected these aims."
Moscow has agelong described its maximalist aims successful Ukraine arsenic getting escaped of the "root causes" of the conflict, demanding that Kyiv springiness up its NATO ambitions.
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