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From Hawkish to Panicky: How Western Media Reacts to Putin-Trump Call

© Sputnik / Sergey GuneevHandshake during a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump at the presidential palace in Helsinki.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called his conversation with his US counterpart Donald Trump substantive, frank, and very useful. He expressed gratitude to Trump for the US participation in the renewal of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine.
Western media has been dissecting the telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

Financial Times

The call represented “a major victory for the Russian leader.” The US is done putting pressure on Russia, as Donald Trump made no promise of future US sanctions.
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BBC

Trump's call with Putin exposed “shifting ground on Ukraine peace talks.” It poses the question uppermost in the West’s war-thirsty minds: “If the US washes its hands of the war […] does it mean the US would also end any military and intelligence support for Ukraine?”
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CNN

By announcing after his call with Putin that Ukraine and Russia would now hold talks “as only they can” on a ceasefire, Trump “sided with his friend in the Kremlin.”
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El Pais

The US and Russian presidents claimed they had an “excellent” and “very meaningful and frank” talk.
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Reuters

The US president “indicated he was not ready to join Europe with fresh sanctions to pressure Moscow.”
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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk to participate in a group photo at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Friday, June 28, 2019. File photo. - Sputnik International, 1920, 19.05.2025
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