Today: Trump And Putin Speak On Ukraine “Bloodbath”

NBC News reports:

President Donald Trump is set to speak Monday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in what the U.S. president said is an attempt to stop the “bloodbath” of the war in Ukraine.

Trump said the call would be taking place at 10 a.m. — although he did not specify whether this was on eastern daylight time or in another time zone. The American president said he would also be speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as members of NATO.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia “highly values” and is “grateful to the American side.” In a briefing with journalists, he said that if the U.S. can “help to achieve our goals through peaceful means, then this is indeed preferable.”

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President Trump is set to speak Monday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in what the U.S. president said is an attempt to stop the “bloodbath” of the war in Ukraine. https://t.co/YDt7P3XBbO

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