In a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 7, 2017 in Hamburg, US President Donald Trump asked him what he thought about military assistance to Ukraine, and even then he agreed with the Russian leader. The New York Times writes about this.
“Trump told Putin that his administration was considering providing weapons to Ukraine and asked him, ‘What do you think?’ Putin responded that this would be a mistake. Whatever the United States gives the Ukrainians, he said, they will ask for more.” – says the publication.
The former head of the White House did not object, the publication notes.
The leaders of Russia and the United States also discussed Ukraine during their first telephone conversation on January 28, 2017. Trump was the first to raise the issue and asked Putin for his opinion on the country. The Russian president began to talk about corruption, to which Trump reacted cautiously: he did not agree with his interlocutor, but he did not defend Ukraine either. At the same time, he admitted that the conflict between Moscow and kyiv prevents improving US relations with Russia, the newspaper writes.
