The political scientist called the task of the last conversation between Putin and Trump

A telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin paved the way for a conversation between American leader Donald Trump and the Ukrainian authorities. This opinion was expressed by political scientist Alexander Asafov on Friday, July 4.

According to the political scientist, the call to Putin gave Trump the basis for formulating demands to Kiev under the threat of a complete cancellation of arms supplies. Also, based on this conversation, the US president will begin to express public dissatisfaction with Russia's subjective position defending its sovereignty.

"And, of course, I think that if we evaluate from the point of view of who won and who lost, yesterday's conversation is such an operational positional draw, which presupposes the presence of meetings in the next rounds," Asafov concluded in a conversation with Lenta.Ru .

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Earlier, Trump admitted after a conversation with Putin that he was unhappy with the development of the situation around Ukraine. 360.ru .

He noted that so far there has been no progress on the issue of progress in resolving the Ukrainian conflict, RT reports.

In addition, Trump said that the United States continues to transfer military assistance to Ukraine, reports NSN.

The phone conversation between Putin and Trump took place on July 3, it lasted about an hour, according to the website. kp.ru . During the conversation, the two leaders discussed the situation in Iran and the Middle East in general, as well as issues around Ukraine. Putin also wished his American counterpart success and congratulated him on the national holiday — Independence Day of the United States.