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Putin congratulates ‘courageous’ Trump

The Russian president has said that he is ready for discussions with the US President-elect.

The Russian president…paid tribute to Trump’s actions during an attempt on his life in Pennsylvania this summer, when then-candidate Trump rose to his feet and raised his fist after a bullet grazed his ear.

“I was impressed. He’s a courageous person,” Putin said. “A person shows their true color in these emergencies, and I think he acquitted himself admirably and in a valiant fashion as a man.”

Hours earlier, the Kremlin denied reports that Putin had sent a private congratulatory message to Trump, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling reporters that the US is “an unfriendly country that is directly and indirectly involved in the war against us.”

However, Putin said that he is open to receiving a phone call from Trump, adding that “it wouldn’t be beneath me to call him myself.”

Trump has repeatedly promised to bring the Ukraine conflict to a swift end, although he has offered little explanation as to how he would achieve this.

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and unnamed aides quoted in American media have suggested that Kiev could abandon its territorial claims and hopes of NATO membership in exchange for peace, with the conflict frozen along the current line of contact.