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Non-public contacts with Ukraine take place from time to time Kremlin aide

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Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov stated that non-public contacts between Russia and Ukraine occur occasionally. He declined to provide the names of the officials involved in these communications.

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What happened

Non-public contacts between Russia and Ukraine take place from time to time, Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said.

Why it matters

"Since you are asking about non-public contacts, I can’t tell you names of officials who may possibly be maintaining these non-public contacts," he said.

Common ground

"But [such contacts] take place from time to time," the Kremlin official added.

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Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov stated that non-public contacts between Russia and Ukraine occur occasionally. He declined to provide the names of the officials involved in these communications.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 2 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Non-public contacts between Russia and Ukraine take place from time to time”
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The provided web search results discuss military agreements, battlefield gains, and phone calls between Trump and Putin, but none of the provided evidence mentions or confirms the existence of occasional non-public contacts between Russia and Ukraine.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ukraine and the US have reached political agreements on licenses for the production of Patriots, — Zelensky.Non-aligned, Nature Non-aligned, Nature. Areas control. Territories captured by Russian forc…
https://liveuamap.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Ukraine has demonstrated in recent months that it is capable of exploiting weaknesses in Russia’s front line defenses. Kyiv’s allies should now seek to prioritize the tools that will identify and exac…
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukrainian…
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web search NEUTRAL — Zelensky has repeatedly argued there "can be no talks on Ukraine without Ukraine" - but the Trump-Putin phone call proved otherwise. Western help – and the Ukrainian forces who benefitted from it – ar…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04n622gzx7o
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Claim 2: “Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said [Non-public contacts between Russia and Ukraine take place from time to time]”
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While the evidence confirms that Yuri Ushakov is a Russian Presidential Aide and mentions him speaking about trilateral negotiations and a phone call between Trump and Putin, none of the provided sources contain the specific quote or statement that 'non-public contacts between Russia and Ukraine take place from time to time'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 Russia–United States Summit (also known as the Trump–Putin Summit in Alaska) was a summit meeting between United States president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin. It was hel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Russia–United_States_summ…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Presidential Executive Office, Russia (abbr. PEO, Russia) or the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation (Russian: Администрация Президента Российской Федерации, romanized: Administr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Administration_of…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yuri Viktorovich Ushakov (Russian: Юрий Викторович Ушаков; born 13 March 1947) is a Russian senior diplomat who has served as the aide to the president of Russia on foreign policy issues since 2012. F…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Ushakov
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