Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has refuted the reports about an alleged telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump.
“There was no conversation,” Peskov said at a briefing today. “This is completely untrue, it is pure fiction.”
US news outlet the Washington Post reported earlier that Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
Trump was said to have warned Putin to not escalate the war in Ukraine and mentioned America’s “sizeable military presence in Europe,” the Post reported.
When asked for confirmation of the call, Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung said: “We do not comment on private calls between President Trump and other world leaders”. But he said leaders have begun the process of reaching out to the president-elect.
