President Donald Trump of the United States said Ukraine aid was not among things discussed in his call on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin has, however, said the Russian leader had called for an end to military assistance for Kyiv.
Trump made the statements in an interview on ‘The Ingraham Angle’, programme on Fox News.
During the call, Putin agreed to temporarily stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities but declined to endorse a full 30-day ceasefire that Trump hoped would be the first step toward a permanent peace deal.
Ukraine said it would support the scaled-back agreement.
According to the Kremlin, after the Trump-Putin call Putin also emphasized that any resolution of the conflict would require an end to all military and intelligence assistance to Ukraine.
“We didn’t talk about aid, we didn’t talk about aid at all. We talked about a lot of things but aid was never discussed,” Trump said.
The United States supplies Ukraine with vital defensive and offensive capabilities.
Washington is Ukraine’s single largest military donor, having delivered or allocated over $70 billion since January 2022 in weapons, ammunitions and other military assistance.
Of that, just over $15 billion was for heavy weapons, data by the Kiel Institute shows.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
