While discussing the situation around Iran, Putin emphasized the need to resolve all issues by political and diplomatic means, said Yuri Ushakov, his foreign affairs advisor.

President Trump spoke on Thursday for more than an hour with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discussed the war in Ukraine and what the Kremlin described as the Iranian issue. Why it matters: The call took place amid a stalemate in Trump's efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine and two days after the U.

Trump said after Thursday's conversation that he did not think Putin was looking to stop the war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin told Trump that Russia expects to agree a date for a third round of peace talks with Ukraine,