Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Turkey’s downing of the Russian Su-24 warplane is a hostile action and reaffirmed Russia’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Russian president Vladimir Putin has crudely rebuffed talk of a rapprochement with Turkey and given a first veiled admission that Moscow’s operatives have been deployed to the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.
Putin said that Trump’s comments to his domestic audience while on the campaign trail were not Russia’s concern, but added that he likes the Republican hopeful’s statements on Russian Federation. “He says that he wants to move to another level relations, a deeper level of relations with Russia”, Putin said.
Asked whether a “third country” might have provoked the Turkish strike on Russia’s warplane, Mr Putin said he “got the hint” from his questioner.
“It is hard for us to reach agreement with the current Turkish leadership, if at all possible”, Putin said during his annual news conference.
In response, Trump said he was honoured. While the president lashed out at Turkey’s leadership, there was a notable change in his rhetoric towards the U.S. Lincoln Mitchell on Putin’s annual news conferenceCCTV America’s Elaine Reyes spoke with Lincoln Mitchell. “Maybe they thought we’d run away from there, but Russian Federation is not that kind of country”, Mr Putin added, noting how Moscow had bolstered air defences in Syria after the incident.
“Russia and Turkey certainly have to reestablish the relations of trust that we have always had, but our patience has a limit”, Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, recently told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. He called Trump “Hillary 2.0” on the social media website Twitter. “And I’m sure that Obama doesn’t like him very much”, Trump said then.
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“I think President Obama has effectively managed our relationship with Russian Federation in a way that has advanced the interests of the United States, while also standing up for the basic worldwide norms that Russian Federation violated based on their activities along and across the Ukrainian border”, he said.
