Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his American couple, Donald Trump, could have had more contacts than the two telephone calls announced Publicly in recent months, said Kremlin in a video posted by state television on Sunday.
Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a peacemakerhe repeatedly said that he wants the three -year conflict in Ukraine to end and He has warned of the risks of becoming a World War between the United States and Russia.
So far two phone calls have been announced between Putin and Trump this year, on February 12 and March 18, although it has been speculated On much more frequent contacts, and it has also been reported that they talked before the Republican was chosen last year.
When Kremlin’s most prominent correspondent for state television asked him about Trump’s comments They indicated that there could have been more than two calls, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that information about the calls he knew had been published.
“We inform you of the conversations of which we have knowledge. But we cannot rule out everything else,” said Peskov with a smile.
Pavel Zarubin, from state television, asked: “So all kinds of nuances are possible, as they say?”
Peskov replied: “Well, this is how I would answer your question. “
Contacts between Trump and Putin have scared European leaderswho fear that the United States can turn its back on Europe in the hope of reaching a peace agreement with Russia as part of a large broader pact that encompasses oil prices, the Middle East and competition with China.
Before contacts with Trump, Putin spent for the last time with an American president in exercise in February 2022when he and Joe Biden were in contact shortly before the Russian leader ordered the sending of tens of thousands of soldiers to Ukraine.
The Washington Post Bob Woodward journalist, In his 2024 “War” book, he reported that Trump had held direct conversations up to seven times with Putin after leaving the White House in 2021.
When asked if that was true in an interview with Bloomberg last year, Trump said: “If I did, it is something intelligent.” The Kremlin denied Woodward’s report.
Reuters, The Washington Post and Axios reported separately that Trump and Putin spoke in early November. The Kremlin also denied those reports.
