Kremlin scoffs at Trump claims drop in oil prices will help end Ukraine conflict

Mr Putin said Moscow is ready to listen to Mr Trump (Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The Kremlin has insisted that a settlement in Ukraine could not be facilitated by a drop in global oil prices, as US President Donald Trump has suggested.

Speaking by video from the White House to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Trump said on Thursday that the Opec+ alliance of oil exporting countries shares responsibility for the nearly three-year conflict in Ukraine because it has kept oil prices too high.