Trump has generally veered away from overtly criticizing Putin while openly berating Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky, but has repeatedly condemned Russia's lethal airstrikes and floated that the Kremlin could be "tapping us along."

US President Donald Trump called his latest conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin "good," but noted that it hasn't brought any results yet, according to Trump’s remarks on the Pod Force One podcast.

President Trump said the Russian leader told him “very strongly” in a phone call Wednesday that he would respond to the drone assault on his country’s airfields.