Putin suggests Ukraine could have UN-led government to organise elections

US rejected suggestion and Kremlin later clarified the idea was just ‘one of the options’ and had not been raised with Trump

Vladimir Putin has suggested Ukraine could be placed under a temporary UN-led government to organise fresh elections in comments rejected by a US spokesperson.

It was not clear how seriously the Russian president’s comments should be taken, given that a couple of hours later the Kremlin clarified that Putin had not raised this idea in recent phone calls with Donald Trump.