“He is a bright and talented person without any doubt”, Putin said, adding that Trump is “an outstanding and talented personality”. Trump said, despite USA wariness of Russia’s presence in Syria, which is mainly aimed at bolstering the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, who the Obama administration has called for to leave.
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Putin and Erdogan have been locked in a war of words over the plane downing, and Moscow has accused Erdogan’s family of engaging in oil smuggling operations in Syria.
“I am proud of them”. “We are ready to work with any president chosen by the American people”.
“Only the Syrian people must decide, standards and rules”, he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he welcomed comments by U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump that he wanted deeper relations with Russia.
After government troops withdrew from parts of northern and northeast Syria in 2012, Syrian Kurds declared many of those areas part of an “autonomous administration”.
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has apparently been around since the 1920s. He is an absolute leader of the presidential race, as we see it today.
Turkey has refused to apologise and insists the Russian jet’s pilot repeatedly ignored warnings that his aircraft was violating the country’s airspace.
Putin criticized Turkey for its handling of the incident last month and referred to it as “a hostile act”. Both of the Russian servicemen were killed by militants on the Syrian side of the border.
“Did they really think we would flee after the incident?” The relationship between Putin and Obama is shaky to say the least partly due to what Trump deems is Putin’s lack of respect for Obama.
He also said Russian Federation honestly won the right to host the 2018 World Cup.
“If someone is doping, they should definitely be punished in the proper way because it destroys the idea of fair competition”, Putin said in his annual news conference.
“Turkey is not acting aggressively toward Russia’s military targets, and our main hope is not to escalate tensions”.
Putin fist bumps his teammates during an ice hockey game between amateur players and Russian ice hockey stars at a Night Hockey League festival at the Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia, on May 10, 2014. Moscow has said that the crash that killed all 224 people on board was caused by a bomb.
Egyptian authorities say the plane was not brought down by terrorism.
Putin reiterated on Thursday that Russian forces in Syria have been providing air support to some of the armed opposition groups that are fighting the Islamic State group.
Putin said that “Russia must and will be open for a joint fight with doping”, adding that he will demand that the nation’s sports officials fully cooperate with worldwide structures.
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And regarding Ukraine, the Russian president again denied that there are Russian troops operating inside eastern Ukraine where a pro-Russian separatist movement is fighting Ukrainian government troops.
