US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and agreed to begin negotiations to broker a ceasefire to the war in Ukraine.
This is the first conversation between the US and Russian President since Trump assumed office after January 20 inauguration.
Trump, in a social media post, said he had a “lengthy and highly productive phone call” with Russian President Putin and the two leaders agreed to “have our respective teams start negotiations immediately”.
“As we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine,” Trump wrote on his social media platform TruthSocial.
The US President also said that he and Putin agreed to visit each other’s nations.
“President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, ‘COMMON SENSE.’ We both believe very strongly in it. We agreed to work together, very closely, including visiting each other’s Nations,” Trump said.
