WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday about starting negotiations immediately to end the war in Ukraine.
“We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskiy, of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform.
The Kremlin said Putin and Trump had spoken for nearly an hour and a half by telephone and that the two men had agreed to meet.
Trump has long said he would quickly end the war in Ukraine, without saying how he would accomplish this.
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Reporting by Katharine Jackson, Doina Chiacu
Writing by Peter Garr; Editing by Jon Boyle
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