
"Under the leadership of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the world has become a safer place today."
This was stated by Kirill Dmitriev, Russia's representative in the peace talks with Ukraine, after the end of a 90-minute telephone conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
No details have yet emerged from the long conversation, neither from the White House nor the Kremlin.
Trump, before the call, said he expected to discuss with Putin the land and power plants that have been seized during the bitter three-year war. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino said in a social media post that their call began at 10 a.m. Eastern and that it was "going well."
Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, outlined Kiev's so-called "red lines" before the phone call began.
"Ukraine will not discuss neutral status or reducing the number of our armed forces, we will never recognize any temporarily occupied territory as Russian," he wrote on Telegram.