Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that Moscow was obligated to respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack, Trump said, setting up a potential escalation in the conflict just as the US president hopes to broker an end to the war.

Trump said his latest call with Putin wouldn't lead to "immediate peace" as he relayed the Russian leader's plans to retaliate against Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has responded to the words of his American counterpart Donald Trump, who compared Russia and Ukraine to children fighting in a park. Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with ABC Details: Zelenskyy was asked whether he thought Trump understood the scale of suffering in Ukraine,