Trump-Putin Call Fails to Make Progress on Ukraine War | Drone Strikes Hit Kyiv Hours Later | N18G

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday (July 3) he made no progress during a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier in the day.Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Trump said he discussed both Iran and Ukraine with Putin.Trump pushed for a quick halt to the Ukraine war while a Kremlin aide said the Russian president reiterated that Moscow would keep pushing to solve the conflict's "root causes."The two leaders did not discuss a recent pause in some U.S. weapons shipments to Kyiv during the nearly hour-long call, according to a readout provided by Putin aide Yuri Ushakov.Within hours of the call, an apparent Russian drone attack sparked a fire in an apartment building in a northern suburb of Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said, indicating little change in the trajectory of the conflict immediately after the call.In Kyiv itself, Reuters witnesses reported explosions and sustained heavy machine gun fire as air defense units battled drones over the capital.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, meanwhile, told reporters in Denmark that he hopes to speak to Trump as soon as Friday about the ongoing pause in some weapons shipments, which was first disclosed earlier this week. News18 Mobile App - https://onelink.to/desc-youtube