US President Donald Trump offered to help Russian President Vladimir Putin find a solution to the Ukraine conflict in a nearly 90-minute phone call on July 5, according to Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov, who described the conversation as 'businesslike and quite constructive.' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he also spoke with Trump and saw 'a real prospect to end this war', with both agreeing to continue talks at the NATO summit in Ankara on July 7–8. On the front lines, both sides have made little progress in recent months largely due to drone warfare, while Russian commanders claimed on July 4 to have captured the strategically important city of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk — a claim dismissed by Ukraine's General Staff.
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