Trump Warned Putin Not To Escalate In Ukraine During Their First Post-Election Phone Call: Report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : "Trump also spoke to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday.
32% : "It is less than a week since the election and more than two months until he takes office, but if reports of his call with Putin are right, Trump is absolutely right to warn Putin against escalation of the conflict in Ukraine.
31% : And The Washington Post reported on Sunday that Trump allegedly told the Russian president not to escalate the conflict and reminded Russia of the US's sizeable military presence in Europe.
28% : Trump has never revealed how he would negotiate the end of the war though, sparking fears he would encourage Ukraine to cede occupied land to Putin.
23% : A former US official told the newspaper that Trump most likely does not want to start his next term in office with an escalation in the Ukraine war, "giving him incentive to want to keep the war from worsening".

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