Foreign Ministry states that it was not informed about telephone conversation between Trump and putin
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine denied reports that Kyiv was informed in advance about the telephone conversation between the newly elected US President Donald Trump and russian dictator vladimir putin.
This was reported by Reuters.
"Reports (in the Washington Post) that the Ukrainian side was informed in advance about the alleged conversation are untrue. After all, Ukraine could not support or oppose this call," Heorhii Tykhyi, the ministry’s spokesman, told the news agency.
As Ukrainian News Agency reported, earlier in the media there was information that US President-elect Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with russian dictator vladimir putin on Thursday, November 7, which became the first telephone conversation between them after Trump's victory in the presidential election.
On November 6, the Bloomberg agency reported that Donald Trump, during a conversation with one of the European leaders, discussed how he should approach negotiations with russian dictator vladimir putin.
On November 7, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a telephone conversation with Trump, during which they agreed on a close dialogue and development of cooperation.
On November 8, the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, said that the USA, after the election of Trump, allegedly wants to "get out" of the russian-Ukrainian war.