{"id":190569,"date":"2026-07-05T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/190569\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:11:09","slug":"putin-and-trump-discuss-ukraine-iran-in-us-independence-day-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/190569\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Trump discuss Ukraine, Iran in US Independence Day call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump discussed Ukraine and the coming Nato summit in Turkey in a phone call Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Putin congratulated Trump on the 250th anniversary of US independence in the call that lasted 85 minutes, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said in an audio message to reporters.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe presidents naturally touched on the topic of a Ukrainian settlement, including in light of Trump\u2019s upcoming participation in the Nato summit in Turkey on July 7-8,\u201d Ushakov said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe American president reaffirmed his readiness to facilitate a swift end to hostilities and the search for solutions to overcome the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ushakov said US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would continue their efforts at mediating a settlement and were ready to travel to Moscow when convenient.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman cycles past a poster in Berlin in June depicting US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin kissing. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/358def45-2644-4616-bcbf-f1b870eb13a6_353ffd87.jpg\" title=\"A woman cycles past a poster in Berlin in June depicting US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin kissing. Photo: AFP\"\/>A woman cycles past a poster in Berlin in June depicting US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin kissing. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe Russian side emphasised the preference for a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict, while taking into account fundamental Russian approaches,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump discussed Ukraine and the coming Nato summit in Turkey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,1486,42687,1870,392,56,56165],"class_list":["post-190569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-iran","tag-nato","tag-nato-summit","tag-putin","tag-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-us-independence-day"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116864475841371168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}