Vladimir Putin says Russia doesn’t lose need to enhance ties with US

“If we set up relations with somebody, we are going to achieve this solely primarily based on the pursuits of the Russian state,” he mentioned.

Putin drew from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to emphasize the adjustments in worldwide relations and recalled that after the Crimea Struggle of 1853-1856, when a collection of restrictions have been imposed on Russia, then-foreign minister of the Russian Empire Alexander Gorchakov despatched out a letter with the next phrases: “Russia isn’t offended. Russia is concentrating.”

“Progressively, as Russia was concentrating, it returned all its rights within the Black Sea as effectively, grew stronger and so forth,” mentioned Putin.

Final week, Russia had issued an advisory for its residents warning them to not journey to the US and different western international locations claiming they could possibly be “hunted” by the authorities in these states, Al Jazeera reported.

Ministry of Overseas Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was cited by the outlet as describing the US-Russia relations as “on the verge of rupture”.