Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to hold a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump and Moscow is waiting for word from Washington that it is ready too, Kremlin said on Friday, Reuters reports.
Trump said on Thursday he wanted to meet Putin as soon as possible to secure an end to the war with Ukraine and expressed his desire to work towards cutting nuclear arms.
The Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also said on Friday that the conflict in Ukraine is about Russia's national security and not about oil prices, after U.S. Donald Trump called for a cut in the price of oil.
Peskov said the issues for Russia in Ukraine were about national security, threats to Russians living there, and the refusal of the United States and Europe to listen to Russia's concerns.
Ukraine and its Western supporters reject those arguments, saying Russia launched the war as an imperial-style land grab.
