Mon 11 November 2024:
The Kremlin on Monday denied media reports suggesting that a phone conversation took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald J. Trump.
On Thursday, Putin and Trump held a phone conversation during which the latter told the Russian president to not escalate the ongoing Ukraine war, which nears its 1,000th day, media outlets, including the Washington Post, reported citing anonymous sources.
“There was no conversation. This is completely untrue, it is pure fiction,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in the Russian capital Moscow.
Peskov went on to describe such publications to be the “most obvious example of the quality of the information that is now being published, sometimes even in fairly respected publications.”
Expressing that there are no concrete plans yet to organize a phone conversation between the two leaders, Peskov further said that Kremlin is seeing a “certain nervousness” in Europe following Trump’s reelection as president.
He said it is too early to talk about a change in Europe’s position with regards to the Ukraine war.
“We are currently reading a lot of information, we do not know to what extent it corresponds to reality. But there are statements by European representatives, and official statements, which speak of the continuation of their general line of providing all kinds of support … pumping weapons into Ukraine in order to continue this war to the end,” he added.
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Russia masses tens of thousands of troops
Russia has massed “tens of thousands of troops” as part of a major effort to retake land in its Kursk region that was seized by Ukraine, according to the Commander-in-Chief of Kyiv’s armed forces.
Oleksandr Syrskyi said Monday that Russian forces were “trying to dislodge our troops and advance deep into the territory we control” in Kursk, where Ukraine’s military has occupied swathes of territory since a surprise August incursion that turned the tables in the two-and-a-half-year war.
The push to retake territory comes as the two sides exchanged an intense wave of drone attacks that Ukraine said killed eight people, and after President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory, which could upend the U.S. approach to the war.
Ukraine and its allies have warned a counteroffensive in Kursk was likely for weeks, and said that thousands of North Korean troops were among the force assembled by the Kremlin in Kursk.
The Pentagon had confirmed earlier that some 10,000 North Korean troops had been sent to Russia for training and were presumed to be joining the fight against Ukraine, intensifying their partnership and alarming the United States and its allies.
As Russia continues its offensive, Ukraine is also reckoning with a shifting political landscape as its biggest backer elects a new president.
Trump has said he would be able to resolve Russia’s invasion before he even takes office, and has praised Putin while blaming Zelenskyy for the war.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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