Putin and Trump held 'businesslike' 90-minute July 4 call, Moscow says [View all]

Source: CNN

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Donald Trump on a July 4 call lasting nearly 90 minutes in which the US leader again offered to help end the Ukraine war, according to Russia’s foreign ministry.

The call came ahead of a critical NATO summit in Turkey starting Tuesday that the US president plans to attend and as Russian forces stepped up efforts to take more of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region - a key objective for the Kremlin. Ukraine meanwhile has continued to target Russian energy infrastructure.

Putin personally congratulated Trump “and the entire American people on this significant holiday” — the 250th anniversary of the US declaration of independence — the foreign ministry said.

The conversation, their fourth this year, was “businesslike and highly constructive,” the ministry said, adding that Trump had “reaffirmed his readiness to facilitate the earliest possible cessation of hostilities” in the Ukrainian conflict.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/europe/putin-trump-call-independence-day-intl

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His communism rants in the last 24 hours - S Dakota and last night - were briefly interrupted by a 90 minute call ... with an actual communist.

I hate this timeline.