President Donald Trump of the United States said on Sunday that he believed the US is making progress in its discussions to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The president, however, declined to provide details about any communications he has had with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump, while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, indicated that the two men had been in contact; that would mark the first officially acknowledged conversation between Putin and a U.S president since early 2022.
When asked whether he has had his conversation with Putin since he became president on January 20 or before, Trump said: “I’ve had it. Let’s just say I’ve had it…And I expect to have many more conversations. We have to get that war ended.
“If we are talking, I don’t want to tell you about the conversations. I do believe we’re making progress. We want to stop the Ukraine-Russia war.”
According to him, the United States was in touch with Russia and Ukraine.
Trump has promised to end the war but not set out yet in public how he would do so.
In a Friday interview with the New York Post, the US president said that he had better not say how many times he and Putin had spoken and did not disclose when the latest conversation had taken place.
