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MOSCOW — President Donald Trump’s heady campaign rhetoric about possible detente with Russia is coming to terms with the realities of his chaotic new administration.

Details emerged Thursday about a telephone call held between Russian President Vladimir Putin in which Trump blasted a treaty negotiated under the Obama administration that limits nuclear weapons deployments — after Trump reportedly paused the call with Putin to ask an aide about the treaty. According to a report by the Reuters news agency, Trump then denounced the New START treaty as favouring Russia.

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The Kremlin on Friday refused to comment on the leaked details of the telephone call.

“I couldn’t confirm this,” Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for Putin, said in a phone call with journalists. “We’ve already reported everything that we considered necessary about the results of the telephone conversation. We have nothing to add.”