{"id":5495,"date":"2025-10-17T11:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=5495"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:41:30","slug":"trump-blindsided-zelensky-with-putin-call-axios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/trump-blindsided-zelensky-with-putin-call-axios\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump blindsided Zelensky with Putin call \u2013 Axios"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US and Russian leaders have agreed to meet in person in Hungary soon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vladimir Zelensky was “surprised”<\/em> upon landing in Washington that US President Donald Trump had held<\/a> a substantive phone call with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Axios has reported.<\/p>\n

During the two-hour-30-minute call, reportedly proposed by Moscow, Putin agreed to meet Trump in Hungary within weeks. This call, as well as the location of the proposed summit – described by Axios as “the least Ukraine-friendly country in the European Union”<\/em> – reportedly caught Zelensky’s team off guard.<\/p>\n

Trump characterized his conversation with Putin as “very productive”<\/em> while the Russian president’s foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, described it as “very substantive and at the same time extremely frank.”<\/em> <\/p>\n

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban – a vocal critic of the Western approach to the Ukraine conflict and of Zelensky’s use of what he branded “moral blackmail”<\/em> to secure military aid for Ukraine – also welcomed the call.<\/p>\n

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Zelensky is set to meet Trump on Friday to discuss his request for Tomahawk cruise missiles that would allow him directly target Moscow, a threat Russia has said would represent a significant escalation of the conflict.<\/p>\n

Media reports have broadly interpreted Trump’s new diplomatic engagement with Putin as an indication that Kiev will not receive the Tomahawks. Putin, Trump said, “didn’t like the idea”<\/em> of Ukraine acquiring the nuclear-capable weapons.<\/p>\n

Moscow has repeatedly stated that it won’t yield to foreign pressure and will achieve its goals in the Ukraine conflict, either diplomatically or militarily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US and Russian leaders have agreed to meet in person in Hungary soon Vladimir Zelensky was “surprised” upon landing in Washington that US President Donald Trump had held a substantive phone call with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Axios has reported. During the two-hour-30-minute call, reportedly proposed by Moscow, Putin agreed to meet Trump in…<\/p>\n

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