12 Apr 2017
Putin: Trust had eroded between the United States and Russia under President Donald Trump - Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an interview broadcast on Russian television moments after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Key quotes (via Reuters):
- One could say that the level of trust on a working level, especially on the military level, has not improved but has rather deteriorated
- The chemical attack in Syria may have been faked by Assad's enemies
- Trust had eroded between the United States and Russia under President Donald Trump
- Sergei Lavrov: I won’t hide the fact that we have a lot of questions, taking into account the extremely ambiguous and sometimes contradictory ideas which have been expressed in Washington across the whole spectrum of bilateral and multilateral affairs