The White House confirmed that the call was underway around 4pm UK time, but details of the discussion have not yet been released.
He has brokered talks between Ukraine and Russia since re-entering the White House but has so far failed to bring about any lasting progress.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) meeting with US President Donald Trump (L) on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral last weekend (Photo: Handout / UKRAINIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY / AFP)
Putin took the call in a music school in the southern Russian resort city of Sochi, Russian state TV reported.
“I think, honestly, that President Putin, he doesn’t quite know how to get out of the war,” Vance said.
It comes after representatives Russia and Ukraine held their first direct talks in Turkey on Friday, though neither Putin nor Trump attended.
Russia reportedly demanded further territory from Ukraine during the talks.
Hours after the talks concluded, a Russian attack hit a bus carrying civilians in Ukraine’s Sumy region, killing at least nine people and injuring four, according to local authorities.
Ukrainian (left) and Russian (right) delegations attend talks at the Dolmabache palace, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday 16 May 2025. (Photo: Ramil Sitdikov, Sputnik Pool Photo via AP)It has also set out a series of maximalist demands in peace talks, seeking not only to control of large swathes of territory but also to ensure Ukraine’s military teeth are removed; reducing the size of its army, banning it from joining Nato and preventing it from receiving military support from allies.
Trump unsuccessfully brokering talks since reelection
Trump has been attempting to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine since returning to the White House in February, but the talks have largely failed to bear fruit except for a ceasefire in the Black Sea which is considered largely inconsequential to the course of the war.
But his relationship with Putin appeared to have cooled in recent weeks, with Trump making a series of public criticisms as he grew frustrated at the Kremlin’s unwillingness to end the war.
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