The Trump-Putin phone call is incredibly important and is a sign that Washington wants peace in Ukraine, the Kremlin has said Read Full Article at RT.com
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov welcomed the US administration’s desire to reach peace in Ukraine
It is hard to overestimate the significance of the recent phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, which mainly focused on the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
The two leaders had a historic phone conversation on Wednesday, which marked the first known time the US and Russian leaders have spoken since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. Following the talk, Trump signaled that he is “okay” with keeping Ukraine out of NATO and suggested that it is “unlikely” that Kiev could regain all of the territories it had lost to Russia over the past decade. Trump also noted that they had exchanged invitations to visit each other’s countries.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Peskov described the phone call as “a very important conversation.”“Against the backdrop of what has been happening for several years, there have been no contacts at the highest level between Moscow and Washington,” he said, noting that this landscape did not contribute to solving the Ukraine crisis.
Unlike the administration of ex-US President Joe Biden, which believed that “everything must be done to ensure that the war continues,” the Trump team apparently “holds the view that everything must be done to stop the war and for peace to prevail,” Peskov said.
“We are much more impressed by the position of the current administration, and we are open to dialogue,” the spokesman stressed.
At the same time, Peskov declined to reveal which side had initiated the engagement, while clarifying that there has been no agreement on whether Trump will come to Moscow to attend the Victory parade to celebrate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on May 9.
