Vladimir Putin today laughed a warning that he left it for his phone call to Donald Trump.
The dictator – notorious for the world leaders to wait – appealed to the annual congress of the Russian Union of industrialists and entrepreneurs, including the best bosses in the country, in Moscow.
While the clock tapped, he did not appear in a hurry to go on the Kremlin on foot for the potentially crucial telephone conversation with the US President.
The leader of the Union Alexander Shokhin looked at his watch and said that Kremlin Dmitry Peskov spokesperson had announced that the timing was in Moscow before 6 p.m. (2 p.m. GMT)
Reports in Russia had said that the session would be between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. – and it was already after 4 p.m.
'Don't listen to him! That is his task, “Putin replied and shows no sign that he wanted to leave.
“Well, I don't know. Now we have to see what Trump says about this … ', said Shokhin, a former Putin -Vice -Prime Minister.
“I didn't mention Trump. I was talking about Peskov, “Putin replied, apparently relaxed in his lax time observation.
Vladimir Putin (photo) laughed today a warning that he left it for his phone call to Donald Trump
Donald Trump (photo) was planned to talk to Putin by phone to discuss the end of the Ukraine invasion
In the end, Putin's Entourage left the conference location, the Moscow International House of Music, about a 20 -minute drive from the Kremlin, at 5 p.m.
Earlier, deputy Staff Chef said than Scavino of the White House that the call started at 10 am et (2 pm GMT) and went well.
The Kremlin said before the call that Trump and Putin would discuss that the conflict in Ukraine registered and would normalize the relationships between Russia and the United States, and that they would speak 'as long as they consider it necessary'.
Spokesperson for Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, said that there was already a 'certain understanding' between the two leaders, based on a telephone conversation that they held on 12 February and subsequent high -level contacts between the two countries.
“But there are also a large number of questions about the further standardization of our bilateral relations and a settlement on Ukraine,” Peskov told reporters.
Ukraine has already agreed to the striking-fire-fired-fire-fired-stinging in the largest conflict in Europe since the Second World War, in which hundreds of thousands of people have been killed or injured, millions have been displaced and cities have been reduced to rubble.
Putin, whose troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, said last week that in principle he supported Washington's proposal for a troops, but that his troops would fight until various crucial circumstances were worked out.
Trump also hopes to guarantee progress in the direction of a peace plan in the longer term, which he has hinted, can include territorial concessions from Kiev and the control of the Zaporizhia core center in Ukraine.
Ukrainians who survived Kursk's retreat spoke about hellish circumstances and constant bombing. The road from Kursk is littered with bodies
The aftermath of a Russian drone attack on a group of Ukrainians trying to evacuate their affected comrades on a stretcher
Bradley IFVs are seen Kursk on the back of Russian trucks
Russian armed forces parade A few Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) made on the back of transport crawls
The call came as a whole series of videos that were shared on the Messaging app telegram by war blog channels, showed Russian troops that seemed to be a few of what seemed to be Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) on the back of transport loaders.
Elsewhere, war bloggers and reporters from the Russian Ria news service A unit of troops that had the task of evacuating what a Stryker Armored Fighting Vehicle (AD) seemed to be from the scene of a recent battle in Kursk.
Ukrainian soldiers who survived Kursk's retreat gave moving reports of the Russian Hellish Assault and described their withdrawal from Sudzha as a 'collapse'.
'(Troops) try to leave – columns of troops and equipment. Some of them are burned by Russian drones on the road. It is impossible to leave during the day, “a soldier told the BBC.
Another explained that Russian troops had succeeded in reducing the supply lines, so that Ukrainian troops had not isolated military or logistical support.
“Logistics no longer works – organized deliveries of weapons, ammunition, food and water are no longer possible,” said a man whose name was given as Anton.
“We died almost several times. Drones are always in the air. '
