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‘Had productive call with Putin,’ says Trump ahead of meeting with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy | World News

insidetrack IndiaDecember 28, 2025

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US President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin talk at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP/ File Photo)

US President Donald Trump has said that he had “a good and ‌very productive” phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of his scheduled meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in ⁠Florida later in the ⁠day.

Informing about the phone call with Putin and his meeting with Zelenskyy in a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “I just had a good and very productive telephone call with President Putin of Russia prior to my meeting, at 1:00 P.M. today, with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. The meeting will take place in the main dining room of Mar-a-Lago.”

Trump and Zelenskyy are scheduled to meet at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida, where the US president is spending the holidays and will be stationed until January 4. Zelenskyy, who arrived a few hours ago in Miami, said the two planned to discuss security and economic agreements in their meeting.

insidetrack IndiaDecember 28, 2025

515 1 minute read

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