US President Donald Trump has announced that he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
In an exclusive interview with the New York Post, aboard Air Force One, Trump said:
"He (Putin) wants people to stop dying. All those deaths. Young, beautiful people. They are like your children, two million of them... and for no reason," the White House chief of staff said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he could neither confirm nor deny a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.