00:00U.S. President Donald Trump says no progress was made in his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday amid stalled efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
00:10He adds that he plans next to speak to Ukrainian President for the Volodymyr Zelensky later today.
00:17For Russia and Ukraine, are you still speaking, are you speaking to Zelensky tomorrow?
00:22I'm speaking to President Zelensky tomorrow, early in the morning, and I'm very disappointed with the conversation I had today with President Putin because I don't think he's there.
00:35I don't think he's there. And I'm very disappointed.
00:39Well, I'm just saying I don't think he's looking to stop. And that's too bad.
00:45The call, which the Kremlin says lasted over an hour, did not include discussion on the U.S. decision to pause weapons shipments to Ukraine, a move announced just two days earlier.
00:56Trump has denied completely pausing the flow of weapons, but blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for depleting U.S. defense stockpiles.
01:04He added that America must guarantee its own military readiness.
01:08Just hours after the call, a Russian drone attack sparked a fire in an apartment building in the northern suburb city of Kiev, indicating little change in the trajectory of the conflict.
01:20The Kremlin also said Putin reiterated that Russia would not back down from its war objectives and that peace talks with Ukraine should remain a bilateral issue without U.S. involvement.
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