WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke connected the telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Thursday and discussed the warfare in Ukraine, the Washington Post reported connected Sunday, citing radical acquainted with the matter.

Trump advised Putin not to escalate the warfare in Ukraine and reminded him of "Washington's sizeable subject beingness successful Europe", the Post reported.

During the predetermination campaign, Trump said helium would find a solution to extremity the warfare "within a day," but did not explicate however helium would bash so.

Trump had besides spoken to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy connected Wednesday, according to media reports.

On Friday, the Kremlin said Putin was acceptable to discuss Ukraine with Trump but that did not mean that helium was consenting to change Moscow's demands.

On June 14, Putin acceptable retired his presumption for an extremity to the war: Ukraine would person to driblet its NATO ambitions and retreat each of its troops from each of the territory of 4 regions claimed by Russia.

Ukraine rejected that, saying it would beryllium tantamount to capitulation, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has enactment guardant a "victory plan" that includes requests for further subject enactment from the West.