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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with students during a sojourn to the Bauman Moscow State Technical University successful Moscow, Russia April 16, 2025.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump for 50 minutes connected Saturday, focusing connected hostilities betwixt Israel and Iran and calling for efforts to bring them to an end.
Kremlin adjutant Yuri Ushakov said Putin condemned the Israeli subject cognition against Iran and expressed concern astir the risks of escalation.
Trump, successful his relationship connected Truth Social, said astir of the treatment centered connected the Middle East, but that helium besides told Putin that Russia's warfare successful Ukraine should end.
"Vladimir Putin condemned Israel's subject cognition against Iran and expressed superior interest astir a imaginable escalation of the conflict, which would person unpredictable consequences for the full concern successful the Middle East," Ushakov told reporters.
Ushakov said Trump described events successful the Middle East arsenic "very alarming". But the 2 leaders said they bash not regularisation retired a instrumentality to the negotiating way connected Iran's atomic programme, Ushakov said.
Ushakov said U.S. negotiators were acceptable to clasp further talks with Iranian representatives, with Oman arsenic mediator. The latest round, scheduled for Sunday successful Oman, has been cancelled.
The Kremlin adjutant said Putin told Trump that Russia stood by proposals to easiness hostility and resoluteness issues concerning Iran's atomic programme.
"The Russian president recalled that anterior to the existent emergence successful hostility our broadside had projected factual steps intended to find mutually acceptable agreements during talks betwixt U.S. and Iranian representatives astir the Iranian atomic program," Ushakov said.
"Russia's principled attack and involvement successful a solution is unchanged and, arsenic Vladimir Putin noted, we volition proceed to enactment based connected this."
Trump's relationship of the speech included what amounted to his archetypal explicit entreaty for the hostilities to end.
"The telephone lasted astir 1 hour," Trump wrote. "He feels, arsenic bash I, this warfare successful Israel-Iran should end, to which I explained, his warfare should besides end."
Trump said helium and Putin mostly discussed the Middle East and spent "much little time" talking astir the warfare successful Ukraine. Trump hinted astatine follow-up discussions connected the warfare successful Ukraine successful the coming week.
On Ukraine, Ushakov said Putin told the U.S. person that Russia was acceptable to continue negotiations with the Ukrainians aft June 22, according to authorities quality bureau RIA.
Ushakov besides said that the presidents expressed restitution "at their idiosyncratic relations which person allowed for them to talk successful a business-like mode to question solutions to issues that are bilateral oregon connected the planetary agenda, nevertheless analyzable those issues mightiness be".
Putin besides congratulated Trump connected his 79th birthday.
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