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US President Donald Trump said that two weeks ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked him for help in resolving the war in Ukraine, according to Trump’s remarks at theAmerican Business Forum in Miami.
President Trump refuses to waste time on an unproductive summit with Vladimir Putin, citing the need for a guaranteed Ukraine peace agreement before any meeting occurs.
A preparatory meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was also canceled.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given state awards to the developers of the Burevestnik cruise missile and the Poseidon underwater torpedo, the latest signal in what analysts have cast as efforts by the Kremlin to discourage the West from supporting Ukraine.
Though Trump said his October 16 call with Putin was “very productive”, the Russian leader annoyed his US counterpart by extolling Moscow’s supposed battlefield successes near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk and the Oskil river, said two people briefed on their conversation.