MOSCOW, June 5. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin holds phone talks with Donald Trump and the Pope, chaos erupts in the Gaza Strip, and Pakistan requests Moscow’s help in easing tensions with India. These stories topped Thursday's headlines across Russia.
Vedomosti: Putin discusses Ukrainian attacks with Trump, Pope
Three days after the Kiev regime’s attacks on Russian airfields and acts of sabotage leading to train derailments in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, at a government session, Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time publicly commented on Ukraine’s attack. Additionally, on this day he held phone talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump for the first time since May 19. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that Putin also had a phone conversation with Pope Leo XIV.
According to a Vedomosti source, it is obvious that the issue of Russia’s response to the Ukrainian extraordinary attacks on airfields housing bomber aircraft was the highlight of the conversations between Putin and Trump and the Pope. Meanwhile, on June 4, the US Embassy in Ukraine urged US citizens to leave Ukraine due to potential projectile and drone strikes.
Pavel Koshkin, senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for US and Canadian Studies, believes that Trump is displaying the typical "realist’s approach to foreign policy."
