{"id":7593,"date":"2025-06-15T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T00:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/putin-trump-hold-phone-call-discuss-ukraine-middle-east-conflict\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T00:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T00:01:42","slug":"putin-trump-hold-phone-call-discuss-ukraine-middle-east-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/putin-trump-hold-phone-call-discuss-ukraine-middle-east-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin, Trump hold phone call, discuss Ukraine, Middle East conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-632916138.jpg\" alt=\"Putin, Trump hold phone call, discuss Ukraine, Middle East conflict\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This is a developing story and is being updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call on June 14 in which the two leaders discussed Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir&#8230; Putin and U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>,&#8221; Russian state media reported, citing Ushakov.<\/p>\n<p>The phone call took place on Trump&#8217;s birthday, as the U.S. president marks the occasion with a military parade in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders discussed Russia&#8217;s ongoing war against <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a> and the situation in the Middle East as Israel and Iran continue to exchange aerial attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exchange of opinions naturally focused on the dangerous escalation of the situation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/middle-east\/\">Middle East<\/a>,&#8221; Ushakov said.<\/p>\n<p>The phone call between Trump and Putin lasted 50 minutes, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/russia\/\">Russia<\/a> expressed its readiness to continue negotiations with the Ukrainians, as agreed, after June 22. Donald Trump took note of this information and once again noted his interest in a speedy end to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict,&#8221; Ushakov said, according to Russian state media.<\/p>\n<p>Trump later confirmed he held a phone call with Putin, noting that the main topic the two leaders covered was Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Putin called this morning to very nicely wish me a Happy Birthday, but to more importantly, talk about Iran, a country he knows very well,&#8221; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114683261634430212\">said<\/a> in a post to Truth social.<\/p>\n<p>Trump noted that the phone call between the two leaders lasted about one hour, with Putin congratulating Trump on his birthday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Much less time was spent talking about Russia\/Ukraine, but that will be for next week. He is doing the planned <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/prisoner-exchange\/\">prisoner swaps<\/a> \u2014 large numbers of prisoners are being exchanged, immediately, from both sides,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The latest round of prisoner swaps occurred on <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-russia-conduct-fourth-prisoner-exchange\/\">June 14<\/a>. Ukraine mainly returned severely wounded and seriously ill soldiers, many of whom were captured during the defense of <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/mariupol\/\" rel=\"dofollow\">Mariupol<\/a> in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Russia has intensified drone and missile attacks on Ukraine following two rounds of largely inconclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/peace-negotiations\/\">peace talks<\/a> between Moscow and Kyiv in Turkey on May 16 and June 2.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Iran continued to <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/iran-israel-continue-exchanging-strikes\/\">exchange attacks<\/a> on June 14, more than 24 hours after Israel launched its first strikes on Iran&#8217;s nuclear sites and military leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/us-ready-to-defend-itself-israel-if-iran-responds-to-israeli-air-strikes-trump-says\/\">said<\/a> that the U.S. military is on high alert and watching for any kind of retaliation, adding that the U.S. will respond to defend itself or Israel if Iran strikes back.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/trump-imposed-a-two-week-deadline-on-putin-it-passed-and-he-did-nothing\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">Trump gave Putin a \u2018two-week\u2019 deadline to consider peace in Ukraine. Instead, Russia just launched more drones.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">A \u201ctwo week\u201d deadline imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to see if Russia is serious about peace in Ukraine has come and gone, with Moscow\u2019s escalation of attacks on civilians during this period failing to draw the slightest condemnation from the White House. \u201cWe\u2019re going to find out<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/size\/w256h256\/format\/png\/2023\/03\/K-new.svg\" alt=\"Putin, Trump hold phone call, discuss Ukraine, Middle East conflict\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Yuliia Taradiuk<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2218934127.jpg\" alt=\"Putin, Trump hold phone call, discuss Ukraine, Middle East conflict\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/putin-trump-hold-phone-call-russias-ushakov-claims\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This is a developing story and is being updated. U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call on June 14 in which the two leaders discussed Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and Iran. &#8220;Another telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir&#8230; Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump,&#8221; Russian<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/putin-trump-hold-phone-call-discuss-ukraine-middle-east-conflict\/\"> [&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152,1],"tags":[1164,1197,5485,1586,158,2742,4296,3258,1181,66],"class_list":["post-7593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kyivindependent","category-news","tag-trump","tag-call","tag-conflict","tag-discuss","tag-east","tag-hold","tag-middle","tag-phone","tag-putin","tag-ukraine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Putin, Trump hold phone call, discuss Ukraine, Middle East conflict - News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/putin-trump-hold-phone-call-discuss-ukraine-middle-east-conflict\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Putin, Trump hold phone call, discuss Ukraine, Middle East conflict - News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Editor&#8217;s note: This is a developing story and is being updated. 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