Putin, Zelenskyy speak with Trump by phone as drone strikes kill 2 in Russia and UK detains tanker
The calls came as Ukraine intensified strikes on Russian energy sites and Trump said a U.S.-Iran deal was close, officials said.
- On Sunday, President Donald Trump held separate phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, discussing the war in Ukraine and bilateral relations ahead of the G7 summit in France.
- These diplomatic exchanges occurred amid intensified fighting, as Ukrainian drone strikes on Sunday killed one person in Oryol and ignited fires at a fuel storage facility around 440 miles from the border.
- Regional officials reported nine wounded in the Oryol residential strike, while Zelenskyy confirmed his forces struck "an oil facility that was important for the reserve of the aggressor state" to degrade Russia's war funding.
- Separately, British armed forces detained the tanker Smyrtos in the English Channel on Sunday, which British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said belongs to a suspected "shadow fleet" violating international sanctions over Moscow's war.
- U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will visit Russia soon, according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, while further Ukraine discussions are set for the G7 summit in France this week.
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According to a report, Vladimir Putin personally congratulated Donald Trump on the phone for his 80th birthday. However, the Kremlin chief foregoed a gift. Russia's president then chatted out a spicy secret for this.
Moscow. The Presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and of Ukraine, Volodymir Zelensky, congratulated their US counterpart Donald Trump on his 80th birthday this Sunday on telephone calls and used the occasion of the conversation as an opportunity to try to convince him, each from his antagonistic interests and vision of what is happening, to take up the role of mediator in the war between the two Slavic countries.
Ukrainian President Zelensky is trying to bring his country back to the attention of his American counterpart. That is why he called Trump to congratulate him on his eightieth birthday. "A nice moment to call," says Ukraine correspondent Chris Colijn. According to him, Zelensky hopes that attention can shift towards Ukraine now that the Middle East is becoming calmer again.
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