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Russian President Vladimir V. Putin welcomed President Trump’s inauguration moment, however, the American leader responded to the compliment.
By Antón Troianovsky
Berlin reports
Russian President Vladimir V. Putin greeted President Trump’s second inauguration with glowing praise, saying Trump had shown “courage” in his crusade and won a “convincing victory” in the election.
But hours later, in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump did not reciprocate. The US president made some of the most critical comments he has made about Mr Putin, noting that the Russian leader is “destroying Russia” through the war in Ukraine.
“You can’t be excited, you’re not doing so well,” Trump told journalists on Monday night, referring to Putin’s war. “Russia is bigger, they have more infantry soldiers to lose, but that is not a way to do it. ” govern a country. “
The whipping stressed why the celebrations for Trump’s return to the White House have been silent in Russia in recent months: Russian officials know that Trump is unpredictable. In fact, Trump has warmly spoke of Putin and in 2018 he accepted the word of the Russian leader about his own intelligence agencies at a summit in Helsinki.
Still, the situation remains fluid, and Mr. Trump said Monday that he may speak to Mr. Putin “very soon.” On Tuesday, Mr. Putin’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters that Russia was “taking into account” Mr. Trump’s Oval Office comments but was still waiting for his aides to reach out about potential talks.
“We are in a position and open to debate with the new American leadership on the Ukrainian conflict,” Ushakov said. “If we get applicable signals from Washington, we will pick them up and be in a position to start negotiations. “
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