{"id":1193715,"date":"2026-09-08T19:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1193715\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:14:17","slug":"trump-putin-hold-frank-phone-call-as-us-restarts-ukraine-deal-efforts-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1193715\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Putin hold \u2018frank\u2019 phone call as US restarts Ukraine deal efforts | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The phone call comes after US special envoys travelled to Russia and Ukraine to discuss \u2018a proposal to end the war\u2019.<\/p>\n

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United States President Donald Trump has spoken by phone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as the White House ramps up efforts to reach a peace deal in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Yury Ushakov, Putin\u2019s foreign affairs adviser, described the two leaders as having a \u201cconstructive and quite frank\u201d hour-long conversation.<\/p>\n

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According to Ushakov, Putin talked with Trump about the ongoing war in Ukraine and Russia\u2019s plans to advance its military goals on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn objective and thorough analysis of the ongoing special military operation and generally our view of prospective battlefield advances and the achievement of the special military operation\u2019s goals and tasks was given,\u201d Ushakov said.<\/p>\n

The adviser added that Putin pushed back against rising concern that Russia could launch future attacks in Europe, including on NATO members.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was underlined that we don\u2019t have any aggressive plans regarding Europe,\u201d Ushakov said.<\/p>\n

The White House did not return Al Jazeera\u2019s request for comment on the reported call.<\/p>\n

The phone call comes just days after US special envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff held separate meetings with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss what Trump has described as \u201ca proposal to end the war\u201d, Europe\u2019s deadliest conflict since World War II.<\/p>\n

Ushakov told reporters Putin and Trump \u201cexchanged views on the outcome of the visits\u201d, saying some \u201cvery good, worthwhile ideas\u201d were presented.<\/p>\n

After his Sunday meeting with the US envoys concluded, Zelenskyy thanked<\/a> Trump for \u201callowing them to come\u201d to Ukraine, despite the ongoing fighting, which was briefly paused for the negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very important that the delegation has arrived to see us. We have been waiting a long time for Steve and Jared, Witkoff and Kushner,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo us, it is very important to do everything so that this war ends,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The meetings, despite being lauded by all sides, appeared to produce no breakthrough on ending the fighting. After the brief weekend truce, both countries resumed strikes.<\/p>\n

Officials in Ukraine said Russian attacks on Tuesday morning killed<\/a> at least five civilians and wounded 25 others in Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russian officials reported three people killed in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, with 13 others wounded. Ukrainian attacks on Russian-annexed Crimea also killed approximately five people, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n

The war began in February 2022, after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, considered the breadbasket of Europe.<\/p>\n

Trump has made ending the war a priority of his second administration, pledging on the campaign trail that he could achieve a settlement within 24 hours.<\/p>\n

He later backtracked on that claim, calling it an exaggeration. Faced with reports that certain US munitions stocks are dwindling, Trump has repeatedly blamed Ukraine for putting a drain on the country\u2019s missile supplies and finances \u2014 though critics point to US actions against Iran as a major factor.<\/p>\n

While Trump has had a rocky relationship with Ukraine and its president, he has cultivated a close relationship with Putin, saying they went through \u201ca hell of a lot\u201d together.<\/p>\n

Last year, Trump invited him to Alaska for his first visit on US soil since 2015.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has faced criticism for seeking to end the war in Ukraine without fully involving Ukrainian and European officials. Trump and Zelenskyy are expected to meet later in the month, according to Ukrainian officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The phone call comes after US special envoys travelled to Russia and Ukraine to discuss \u2018a proposal to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1193716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[6178,32,299,1234,12,285,332,7661,657,49,286,333],"class_list":["post-1193715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-government","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-vladimir-putin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117237022071254225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}