By Alexander Ward, Georgi Kantchev and Alex Leary
Dow Jones-US President Donald Trump has by phone with the Russian president Vladimir Putin spoken about the war in Ukraine, but did not make any progress in the end of the fights. “I am very disappointed with the conversation that I had with President Putin today because I don’t think he’s there,” Trump said after his return to Washington from a rally in Iowa. “I’m just saying, I don’t think he wants to stop, and that’s a shame.” The President said he would speak to Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Zelenskij on Friday morning.
According to the Kremlin, Trump asked Putin to quickly end the war in Ukraine, which he rejected. It was the first conversation between the two heads of state since the US government officer said this week that they had stopped a number of arms deliveries to Ukraine. Trump pointed out that the United States had not decided to hold weapons back to Kiev, but added that the United States checked whether it needed the weapons for the pentagon’s stocks. “We have to make sure that we have enough,” he said.
According to Juri Uschakow, a close advisor to the Russian president, Putin Trump said during the phone call that, despite Trump’s trump, Russia would not deploy his goals in Ukraine. “Our president said that Russia will achieve his goals, that is, the elimination of the known causes that have led to the current situation,” said Uschakow, quoted by the state news agency TASS. “Russia will not move away from these goals.”
Putin had expressed the willingness of Russia to continue negotiations with Ukraine, but appointments for new discussions between Kiev and Moscow were not discussed, said Uschakow. Trump and Putin had not spoken about the interruption of arms deliveries to Ukraine.
Trump has commented critically towards Putin in the past few days and explained at the NATO summit last week that the Russian President was responsible for the continuation of the three-year war with Ukraine.
The White House had withdrawn from the efforts of a peace agreement between Kiev and Moscow after moving Putin to accept a temporary ceasefire last month. The decision of the United States to stop the transfer of Patriot fishing missiles and other weapons intended for Ukraine has aroused concern among the Ukrainian politicians that Ukraine cannot withstand the increasing and increasingly fatal air strikes Moscow.
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July 04, 2025 02:50 ET (06:50 GMT)