Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with US President Donald Trump, the Russian state news agency TASS informs. Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov said the conversation lasted 50 minutes and was "useful.

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Trump has generally veered away from overtly criticizing Putin while openly berating Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky, but has repeatedly condemned Russia's lethal airstrikes and floated that the Kremlin could be "tapping us along."

Birthday call between US and Russian presidents touches on Middle East, Ukraine war, prisoner swaps; Kyiv voices unease over tone and aid concerns

Russia has used its fleet of bombers to rain hellfire on Ukraine. On June 1, Kyiv responded by going after those bombers.

He highlighted the Kremlin's strategy to create the illusion of diplomacy in order to show US President Donald Trump that “there’s still a diplomatic bridge” between Ukraine and Russia. Read also: Kremlin sees peace talks as smokescreen,

A close aide to Vladimir Putin has claimed that the world could face nuclear annihilation unless Ukraine agrees to give up parts of its territory permanently