Then, in response to Trump’s claim that during their phone call, he asked—in some accounts, warned —Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine, a Kremlin spokesman denied that the two had spoken on the phone at all. (Putin issued his belated congratulations at a news conference.)

Donald Trump, who won the US presidential election last week, has meanwhile already urged his Russian counterpart not to escalate the war. This is what The Washington Post writes.

A RUSSIAN TV chef who fled to London after opposing Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war has been found dead in a Belgrade hotel. Alexei Zimin, 52, died suddenly on a promotional tour to the Serbian

A TV chef who fled to London after his opposition of Vladimir Putoin has been found dead while on a promotional tour

A Russian TV chef who ran a restaurant in central London has been found dead in Serbia. Alexei Zimin, 52, was an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Crimea in 2014. He had spent his final years exiled in London.