Putin in the call with Trump vowed retaliation against Ukraine for its recent drone attack on Russian bombers, the U.S. president said.

Donald Trump said he held a 75-minute phone call with Vladimir Putin just days after tensions between both leaders spilled into the open. The call, which Trump shared publicly on X, took place while the war in Ukraine passed its third year,

President Trump spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, acknowledging afterward that it was “not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace” between Russia and Ukraine.