Vladimir Putin spoke to reporters about Russia's position on its war with Ukraine after the Russian president's earlier high stakes phone call with US President Donald Trump. Read more: https://cnn.it/4kqXOhG | CNN

Russian President #VladimirPutin has sharply escalated tensions with #Europe, accusing #Kyiv’s #European allies of deliberately sabotaging U.S.-led peace efforts to end the nearly four-year war in #Ukraine. Speaking in #Moscow ahead of a high-level meeting with a U.S. delegation that included Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, #Putin claimed that European governments were “on the side of the war” and had inserted “absolutely unacceptable” demands into peace proposals — moves he says