U.S. President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned him on 14 June to extend birthday greetings, which coincided with U.S. Flag Day. According to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, the two leaders also exchanged congratulations on Flag Day and briefly evoked the World War II alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union, referring to it as a wartime ‘brotherhood’. Neither side disclosed discussion of substantive policy issues, and the White House and Kremlin have not released official readouts beyond the ceremonial remarks.