The Russian president “congratulated” Donald Trump after his election as head of the United States and said he was ready to “reestablish contact” with him, four years after the end of the Republican’s first term.
Until now, he had not yet officially reacted. Russian President Vladimir Putin “congratulated” Donald Trump “on his election to the presidency of the United States” this Thursday, November 7 during a forum in Sochi.
“If someone wants to get back in touch, that doesn’t bother me. I’m ready,” he added of the president-elect.
The master of the Kremlin also assured Thursday that he was impressed by the way Donald Trump behaved during an assassination attempt that narrowly missed him during a meeting. “He turned out to be a courageous person,” Vladimir said. Poutine.
“People show who they are in extraordinary circumstances. That’s when a person reveals himself. And he behaved, in my opinion, in a very correct, courageous way. Like a man,” said the president Russian.
Trump’s Ukraine plans ‘deserve attention’
President-elect Donald Trump, for his part, indicated that he was “thinking” of speaking soon to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I think we’re going to talk to each other,” the Republican told NBC, during his first interview since his victory in the presidential election.
In recent months, the 78-year-old tycoon has constantly insisted that he was capable of imposing peace in Ukraine in “24 hours”, without ever explaining how. He decried, just like Vice-President-elect JD Vance, the scale of the tens of billions of dollars in aid paid to kyiv by Washington.
“What he said about his aspiration to restore relations with Russia and help end the Ukrainian crisis, I think deserves attention,” Vladimir Putin said on this subject on Thursday.
