Any conversation between the two would mark the first time a sitting U.S. president and Putin have spoken since the war in Ukraine began, although former President Joe Biden held phone calls with Putin multiple times in the leadup to Moscow's invasion to urge Putin against it.

We'd better meet and have a calm conversation on all issues of interest to both the US and Russia based on today's realities,” Putin said in a TV interview. View on euronews

On Jan. 22, posts on the social media platform X alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to extradite Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the U.S. president from 2021 to 2022, to Russia as part of a deal to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The posts provided no evidence to support the claim.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he is open to meet with United States President Donald Trump to “talk calmly” about issues such as energy prices and the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine.

President Donald Trump has said multiple times that the war in Ukraine would have never broken out had he been in office.

Putin ‘open for talks’ with Trump over Ukraine war and calls for leaders to meet - Russian president also echoes new US president’s claim conflict in Ukraine could have been prevented had he been in W

Donald Trump claims to have a good relationship with Vladimir Putin, but Ukraine believes the Russian president is looking to manipulate his US counterpart — and sideline both Kyiv and Europe in potential negotiations.

I would say they are pragmatic and trusting relations. I can’t help but agree with him that if his victory had not been stolen in 2022, then maybe there would not have been the crisis in Ukraine that arose in 2022.

If Donald Trump had been re-elected president of the United States in 2020, then the crisis on Ukraine could have been avoided. This was announced today, January 24, by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a blitz interview with Pavel Zarubin.

United States President Donald Trump has threatened to hit Russia with taxes, tariffs and sanctions if the almost three-year long conflict with Ukraine does not end.

Trump’s suggestion of a trilateral arms agreement between the United States, Russia, and China is strategically interesting—but doomed to failure.