MOSCOW/WASHINGTON/KYIV/UNITED NATIONS - The Kremlin announced on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump.

"The Russian president has invited the US president to visit Moscow," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that Putin expressed readiness to receive US officials in Moscow.

The two presidents discussed the situation in Ukraine and the peaceful settlement of the conflict, Peskov said, stressing that Trump embraced a quick ceasefire and peaceful settlement of the problem while Putin underlined the need to eliminate the root causes of the Ukraine conflict.

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"During the talks, they also touched upon the issues of the Middle East, Iran's nuclear program as well as Russia-US relations in the economic domain," Peskov said.

He noted that Putin and Trump, during the talks, agreed to keep personal contacts, including arranging a meeting in the future.

The Kremlin spokesman described the phone conversation as an "extensive and substantive dialogue", which lasted nearly 90 minutes.  

Meanwhile, Trump said he and Putin agreed Washington and Moscow will immediately engage in direct negotiations aimed at ending the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

"I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia," Trump said, offering his version of the content of the call in a post on Truth Social.

Trump said he and Putin agreed that "we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine".

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"We agreed to work together, very closely, including visiting each other's Nations. We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now," Trump said.

He said he has asked US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff to lead the US team in the negotiations.

Trump said he felt "strongly" that the negotiations between the United States and Russia "will be successful".

'Opportunities to achieve peace'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that he discussed ways to bring peace to Ukraine in a phone conversation with Trump.

"We long talked about opportunities to achieve peace, discussed our readiness to work together at the team level," Zelensky said on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

The Ukrainian leader noted that Trump shared details of his conversation with Putin.

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Zelensky also said he discussed Ukraine's technological capabilities with Trump, including drones and other advanced industries, as well as the preparation of a new document on bilateral security, economic cooperation, and resource partnership.

Zelensky added that he and Trump agreed to stay in contact and plan future meetings.

Also on Wednesday, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said the UN welcomes all efforts to resolve the Ukraine-Russia conflict and sees the phone call between the US and Russian leaders as a "positive thing".

"What we would appreciate is any efforts to resolve the war in Ukraine that would involve the Russian and Ukrainian sides. And so obviously, if both of them are willing to be involved in a process, that would be a welcome development," said Haq.

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"Given the importance of the United States and the Russian Federation, the UN welcomes any efforts to resolve issues through regular contact," the spokesman said.

When asked whether the UN will be part of the negotiations, Haq said, "We would have to see what role we would have to play. Obviously, as we've said many times over the last three years, the United Nations is willing to play a good offices role if asked to by the parties."