White House: Trump did not speak to Putin, but his envoy

The White House has clarified that it was US envoy Steve Whitoff, the one who spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and not American President Donald Trump.

Confusion was triggered by Trump's post to social media earlier, in which he praised discussions with the Russian leader and said “I have strongly asked President Putin”, making it sound like he spoke to Putin personally, reports The Guardian, broadcast Periscope.

Also, another element of Trump's original post, writes The Guardian, is the part that says that <x0 thousand Ukrainian troops are completely surrounded by the Russian Army” in the Kursk region, for which there has been strong opposition from Ukrainian sources and military analysts describing it as incorrect.

In a post on its social media platform, Donald Trump praised the good and productive “differences between Russia and the US yesterday.

However, it warns that thousands of Ukrainian troops are fully surrounded “by the Russian Army, saying they are in a very bad and vulnerable “ ”).

He also found that he had asked Putin “to save life”, adding: “This would be a terrible massacre” on a scale of “unprecedented since World War II”.