Trump ‘may call Putin TODAY defying his inner circle’ after Russian tyrant snubs peace efforts with Ukraine onslaughts

DONALD Trump may Trump may defy warnings from his inner circle to call Vladimir Putin today - even after Russia launched another vicious drone attack on Ukraine.

Trump's allies had urged the US President not to directly speak to the Kremlin tyrant until he had fully committed to a ceasefire.

European capitals expect that the pair could talk again by phone as soon as today.

But there are reportedly no scheduled talks planned between the pair as of Thursday afternoon, according to administration officials.

Trump's officials have warned him against speaking to Vlad until the Russian leader commits to ending the war in Ukraine.

This comes after Russia launched a drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Friday.

Shocking footage from the onslaught shows the city engulfed by flames.

Further footage shows the emergency services responding to the attack, standing among the smouldering rubble.

The strikes killed at least five people and left a further 32 injured, according to local authorities.

Another six people were injured in the regions of Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv.

Kharkiv Governor Oleg Synegubov wrote on social media: "An 88-year-old man died in hospital ... As of this moment, five people are dead and 32 are wounded."

Shortly after the overnight attacks, army chiefs from London and Paris arrived in Kyiv for talks on a possible troop deployment.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot spoke about the meeting in Paris outside a NATO meeting in Brussels.

Barrot said: "There will be at some point a need for military capacity or reassurance, whenever peace is reached.

"And this is the reason why our army chiefs will be in Kyiv today in order to advance this work."

Ukraine has repeatedly accused Russia of targeting residential areas and civilians throughout the three-year-long war.

Russia denies deliberately firing on non-military targets, despite thousands of civilians having been killed in Russian air strikes, including on schools, hospitals and apartment blocks.

Trump has previously said he was “p***ed off” with Putin for his lack of willingness to agree to a ceasefire.

The US President took a rare aim at Putin on Sunday after the Russian tyrant called for president Zelensky’s removal in an effort to stall peace talks.

He said: “I was very angry, p***ed off, when Putin started getting into Zelensky’s credibility.”

He has threatened to impose a 50 per cent tariff on countries buying Russian oil.