February 13, 2025

The Kremlin and White House announced separately on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump had held a phone conversation, with Trump later saying the leaders could meet in Saudi Arabia. 

"The Russian president has invited the U.S. president to visit Moscow," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that Putin expressed readiness to receive U.S. officials in Moscow.

"I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia," Trump said, offering his version of the content of the call in a post on Truth Social.

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