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President Donald Trump had a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday morning and marked the first known conversation between the presidents since Trump took over the office last month. It came a day after Russia released an American prison in the country.

Trump administration officials said they hoped that the exchange could have a renewed effort to end the conflict in Ukraine, which is coming into the fourth year.

In a reading of the conversation that was sent about truth social, Trump said, “We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar and various other topics.”

Trump for weeks had signaled his desire to talk to Putin as he works to solve the Ukraine conflict.

“A single can change the course of history,” Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and a close Putin -allied, told CNN’s Matthew Chance.

“Today, the leaders of the United States and Russia may have opened a door to a future formed by cooperation, not confrontation,” said Dmitriev.

Dmitriev had met us special envoy to Middle East Steve Witkoff on Earth during his efforts to return the retained American teacher Marc Fogel from Russia, sources with knowledge of this exchange said

Trump’s predecessor, President Joe Biden, had not spoken to his Russian counterpart of almost three years.

The Wednesday call lasted for almost 90 minutes, the Kremlin said. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists that the two leaders discussed the exchange of Russian and American citizens “among other topics.” He called the conversation “quite positive and constructive.”

CNN’s Fred PleitgenAt Anna Chernova, Christian Edwards, Matthew Chance and Michael Rios contributed reporting to this post.

This post has been updated with further reporting on the call and with comments from the Kremlin.