Did a Phone Call Take Place Between Trump and Putin? Here's What the Kremlin Had to Say.

The Kremlin denied a phone call took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President-elect Donald Trump last week.

According to a report in The Washington Post, the two leaders spoke on Thursday. The Republican was said to have cautioned Putin against escalating the war in Ukraine and reminded the Russian leader about the U.S.’s military presence in Europe.

The two men discussed the goal of peace on the European continent and Trump expressed an interest in follow-up conversations to discuss “the resolution of Ukraine’s war soon,” one of the people said.

In his presidential campaign, Trump said he would bring an immediate end to the war in Ukraine, though did not offer details about how he intended to do so. He has signaled privately that he would support a deal where Russia kept some captured territory, and during the call he briefly raised the issue of land, people familiar with the matter said.