Kremlin denies reports of Trump-Putin phone discussion on Ukraine
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has denied that US President-elect Donald Trump had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin, contradicting a report in the Washington Post about a phone call between the two world leaders last week.
“This is the most obvious example of the quality of the information that is now being published, sometimes even in respected media,” Peskov said Monday. “This is completely untrue. It is pure fiction, it is simply false information.”
Peskov was commenting on the Washington Post report citing anonymous sources as saying Trump discussed the war in Ukraine with Putin on Thursday in the first phone conversation between the two men since Trump won the election.
When asked directly if any conversation had taken place between Trump and Putin recently, Peskov stated:
“There was no conversation.”
A Trump spokesperson declined to directly comment on the contents of the reported call and did not directly say whether the conversation had happened.
“We do not comment on private calls between President Trump and other world leaders,” Steven Cheung said Sunday.
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