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donald Trump has given the world a peak
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into a private conversation with
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Vladimir Putin and the details sound
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increasingly tense and increasingly
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menacing so the US president has warned
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that Putin has threatened retaliation
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after Ukraine's major drone offensive on
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Russian air bases and on a day when
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Trump is flooding the zone with
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executive actions from sweeping travel
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bans to attacks on Harvard University
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and on former President Joe Biden it
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would be easy for the significance of
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this moment to be buried in the media
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noise the call with the Russian
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president lasted an hour and 15 minutes
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that's according to a post on Trump's
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Truth Social platform he said that it
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was a good conversation but not one that
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would lead to an immediate peace he
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added here that Putin said very strongly
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that he would have to respond to the
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airfield attack this was the first
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conversation between the two presidents
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since Ukraine's surprise drone attack on
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Russian military targets trump
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reportedly emphasized that the US knew
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nothing about the offensive in advance
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trump added that the men discussed the
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difficulties in forging a nuclear deal
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with Iran insisting that the state
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cannot have a nuclear weapon and on this
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I believe that we are in agreement
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ukrainian President Zalinsky has taken
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to social media himself to respond to
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the swirling threats from Putin posting
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on X that facts are stubborn things with
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a number of statistics he said that in
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2025 alone Russia has hit Ukraine with
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27,700 bombs 11,000 Shahed drones and
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9,000 other unmanned attack vehicles
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alongside 700 missiles he added "If the
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powerful do not stop Putin it means they
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share responsibility with him." The
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question now is how willing Trump will
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be to back up his increasingly tough
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talk on Putin into actual threats
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against Russia and support for Ukraine
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though his secretary of state Marco
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Rubio is more sympathetic to Zilinsk's
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efforts key figures in the Trump
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administration particularly the vice
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president JD Vance are long-term critics
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of the Ukrainian leader so as Europe
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scrambles to rearm and don't forget NATO
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wants the UK spending 3.5% of GDP on
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defense by 2035 to what extent is
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Trump's war on words with Putin actually
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going to involve anything more than
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words for everything you need to know
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about the situation as it continues to
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