Then, in response to Trump’s claim that during their phone call, he asked—in some accounts, warned —Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine, a Kremlin spokesman denied that the two had spoken on the phone at all. (Putin issued his belated congratulations at a news conference.)

The Kremlin has dismissed reports suggesting a recent phone conversation between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump regarding the Ukraine conflict. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov labeled these claims as "pure fiction,

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President-elect Donald Trump has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged him not to escalate the war in Ukraine, the Washington Post said Sunday.