The conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin with his Finnish counterpart Alexander Staab and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Storr "stuck a wedge" between Ukraine's European allies. This was reported by the British newspaper "Daily Telegraph". It should be noted that Staab and Stora had not previously discussed with European leaders the idea of calling Putin, which raised their concerns about the formation of a single window for dialogue with Russia. A European official, who asked to remain anonymous, told the newspaper that after this dialogue, EU leaders can call Putin "right and left" without having a common European position. The Telegraph emphasized that the phone call between the leaders of Russia, Finland and Norway took place against the background of the EU countries' efforts to establish a coherent group of leaders from the bloc for dialogue with Moscow. In Britain, a split was announced due to Stubbsster's conversation with Putin. Earlier, the President of Finland and the Prime Minister of Norway had a telephone conversation with Putin. According to the press service of the Kremlin, the leaders of the three countries agreed to continue to have direct contacts by telephone. According to the aide of the Russian leader, Yuri Ushkov, the conversation focused mainly on the renewal of the tripartite negotiations between Moscow, Kiev and Washington on Ukrainian issues.