Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the campaign against Ukraine will continue till all the objectives are achieved. Putin said this during a phone conversation with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, yesterday.

Briefing reporters after an hour-long phone conversation between the two presidents, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said Moscow will continue to seek a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict but will not leave its root causes unaddressed. Putin declined Trump’s call for the earliest possible truce to end the almost four-and-a-half-year-long war. He, however, expressed readiness to achieve a negotiated solution through political dialogue with Kiev, Ushakov said.