US President Donald Trump said that he discussed the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine on the phone with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
“I prefer not to talk about it“, Trump told The New York Post aboard Air Force One, when asked how many times he had spoken with the Russian leader.
The American leader did not specify when exactly he spoke with the Russian president. The publication quotes Trump's words about contacts between the two leaders in indirect speech. It is not specified whether this was before or after Trump took office.
On February 7, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov announced that the Kremlin would inform about the progress of organizing contacts between the leaders of the Russian Federation and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, "when significant information becomes available".