“No, that’s not the case,” the spokesman told reporters covering the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Astana, when commenting on Western media reports that Putin and Trump are reportedly discussing the conditions for peace in Ukraine.

The US newspaper Politico previously reported, quoting anonymous sources, that Trump was considering concluding an agreement under which the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would commit to not further expanding eastward, as well as that the former president would hold talks with Putin about how much of Ukrainian territory Moscow can keep.”

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