Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Wednesday (US time), discussing the wars in Ukraine and Iran.
“I suggested a little bit of a ceasefire, and I think he might do that,” the US president said. “Even if it’s a little ceasefire, there’s so many people being killed, it’s ridiculous.”
Trump said Putin offered to help the US obtain Iran’s remaining stockpiles of highly enriched uranium.
“I said I’d much rather have you be involved with ending the war in Ukraine … before you help me, I want to end your war.”
Asked which conflict he believed would end first, Trump briefly confused the two, stating that Ukraine had been militarily defeated, before listing US military achievements against Iran.
