Kremlin dismisses reports Trump and Putin spoke in recent days as ‘pure fiction’
US reports said the two spoke in recent days, with Trump advising Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine
The Kremlin dismissed on Monday reports that US President-elect Donald Trump had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent days as “pure fiction”.
A source told Reuters on Sunday that Trump, who has criticised the scale of US military and financial support for Kyiv and said he will end the war quickly, had spoken to Putin in recent days.
The source told Reuters they were familiar with the conversation, first reported by The Washington Post, which cited unidentified sources as saying Trump had told Putin that he should not escalate the Ukraine war.
In an unusual move, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday no such call had taken place between Putin and Trump.
“This is completely untrue. This is pure fiction, it’s just false information,” he told reporters. “There was no conversation.”
