The newly elected US President Donald Trump spoke with the Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday and asked him not to provoke an escalation in Ukraine, the American daily Washington Post reported this evening.
It would be the first phone conversation between the two since Trump won the US presidential election on November 5.
"They discussed achieving peace on the European continent, and Donald Trump expressed his hope for continued talks on the imminent resolution of the war in Ukraine," writes the American newspaper, citing unnamed sources.
When asked by AFP, Donald Trump's entourage did not confirm this information.
Foreign policy issues will be the topic of a meeting between Joseph Biden and Trump scheduled in the Oval Office of the White House for Wednesday to begin the transition of power.
Trump, who will return to the White House on January 20, said during the campaign that he could end the war in Ukraine "in one day," but did not specify how he would do it.
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