FILE - President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, July 7, 2017. A Pew survey of democracies around the world finds that views of the U.S. as a model for democracy are slipping and confidence in Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is on par with Russian President Vladmir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
The Kremlin denies that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump had a phone conversation after the Republican won the US presidential election.
“There was no conversation. This is the most clear example of the quality of the information that is now published sometimes even in quite respected publications. It is completely untrue. It’s pure fiction, it’s just false information,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing.
The Washington Post reported the day before, citing sources, that Putin and Trump spoke by phone on Nov. 7, including discussing Russia’s war against Ukraine. The paper’s interlocutors claimed that during the conversation, the U.S. president-elect warned Putin against escalation and reminded him of the significant military presence of U.S. forces in Europe.