Ties with US are at lowest point: Putin
WASHINGTON: Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview with NBC News ahead of his meeting with US President Joe Biden next week, said Us-russia relations are at their “lowest point” in years.
“We have a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years,” Putin said, according to an NBC translation of excerpts of an interview broadcast on Friday.
Putin praised former US president Donald Trump as “an extraordinary individual, talented individual”, and said Biden, as a career politician, was “radically different” from Trump.
Asked about Biden calling him a “killer” in an interview in March, Putin said he had heard dozens of such accusations. “This is not something I worry about in the least,” Putin said.
Putin and Biden will meet in Geneva on Wednesday. The White House announced on Saturday that Biden will hold a solo news conference after meeting with Putin.