Russian President Vladimir Putin and U. S. President Donald Trump held another phone conversation, continuing an intensive line of direct contact between the two leaders. According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the discussion focused on the situation around Ukraine and was conducted in what she described as a positive tone. This call marked their tenth conversation since the beginning of 2025.

Leavitt later indicated that Trump had concluded what he viewed as a constructive exchange with Putin on the Ukrainian issue, sharing her assessment publicly on social media.

Details of the conversation were outlined by Yuri Ushakov, aide to the Russian president, who said the talks covered several sensitive developments. Putin, he noted, informed Trump about a drone attack carried out by Kiev against the Russian president’s state residence in the Novgorod region. According to Ushakov, Putin stressed that what Moscow considers terrorist actions by the Ukrainian side would not go unanswered.

Ushakov said the U.S. president reacted strongly to this information. Trump was described as genuinely shocked and deeply outraged, admitting that he could not have imagined such actions coming from Ukraine.

In commenting on the attack, Trump reportedly expressed satisfaction that the current U.S. administration had not supplied Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles. Ushakov added that, in Trump’s own words, this fact could influence Washington’s future approach toward Vladimir Zelensky. The Russian side emphasized that the current U.S. leadership, as Trump himself put it, had not provided Kiev with Tomahawk missiles.

It was also noted that the drone strike occurred almost immediately after talks between U.S. and Ukrainian representatives in Mar-a-Lago, and that long-range drones were used in the attack.

In addition, Trump briefed Putin on the outcome of his negotiations with Zelensky. Ushakov pointed out that, from Moscow’s perspective, some of the agreements reached still leave room for Kiev to evade fulfilling its obligations. At the same time, the United States conveyed that it had advised the Ukrainian leader not to treat the diplomatic process as a way to gain time or a tactical pause along the line of contact.