Trump and Putin will have a telephone conversation on Saturday as the first step to clear out tensions caused due the conflict in Ukraine and start anew. Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump will speak by telephone on Saturday, the Kremlin said, a first step towards what Trump has billed as a normalisation of relations after three years of tensions sparked by the conflict in Ukraine. Trump and Putin last spoke in November, when Putin rang Trump to congratulate him on winning the presidential election. Trump and Putin have never met and it was unclear how their very different personalities would gel. Trump is a flamboyant real estate deal-maker who often acts on gut instinct, while Putin is a former Soviet spy who calculates each step methodically.

Source: dna January 27, 2017 19:27 UTC