President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone on Thursday, in the two leaders’ first conversation since the U.S. paused a series of weapons shipments for Ukraine.Trump urged Putin to quickly end the war in Ukraine but the Russian president refused,

Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call on Thursday that Moscow wants a negotiated end to the Ukraine war but will not step back from its original goals, a Kremlin aide said.

President Trump spoke on Thursday for more than an hour with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discussed the war in Ukraine and what the Kremlin described as the Iranian issue. Why it matters: The call took place amid a stalemate in Trump's efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine and two days after the U.