Putin-Trump phone call expected on Saturday: Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to speak by telephone this Saturday (28/01/2017), the Kremlin said, a first step towards what Trump has billed as a normalization of relations after three years of tensions sparked by the conflict in Ukraine.
Trump will also have a telephone conversation the same day with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and that call is expected to focus on Russia, a source familiar with the matter said.
Trump has said in the past that, as part of the rapprochement he is seeking with Russia, he is prepared to review the sanctions that Washington imposed on Russia in relation for its 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula.
That move is likely to face resistance from both influential figures in Washington and foreign leaders -- Merkel among them -- who argue sanctions should only be eased if Moscow complies with the West's conditions on Ukraine.
Source: reuters.com
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