According to TASS news agency and other media reports on the 17th, Russian President's assistant Ushakov told reporters that Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin on the 16th after a regular phone call with the President of the United States.

Ussakov said: ¡°Last night, after a regular conversation with the President of the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin immediately summoned the Executive Committee of the Security Council of the Russian Federation to meet in the Kremlin and detailed the contents of his exchange of views with the US leaders.¡±

Trump posted on social media on the 16th that he had a phone call with Putin. The call was "fruitful" and the two sides will hold a face-to-face meeting in Hungary. The White House said the call lasted more than two hours. According to reports from "Rossiya Segodnya" and other media on the 16th, Ushakov revealed that during a phone call with Trump, Putin said that the United States might provide "Tomahawk" missiles to Ukraine, saying that the "Tomahawk" missiles would not change the Russia-Ukraine war situation, and would only cause "significant damage" to Russia-US relations.