Trump says that the relationship with Russia 'has changed' in the last hours

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For his part, Putin has admitted that he wants Trump to win the elections in his country. The Russian president has argued that Trump "wanted to improve relations with Russia."

US President Donald Trump said today that his country's relationship with Russia "has changed" thanks to today's summit with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to ensure that the first steps have been taken. "within a" long process "to improve bilateral relations.

For his part, Putin has admitted that he wanted Trump to win the elections in his country during the joint press conference after his first bilateral summit in Helsinki.

 

To the question of a US journalist on the matter, Putin has assented and has argued that Trump "wanted to improve relations with Russia."

"Our relationship has never been worse than now, but that has changed in the last four hours, I really believe it," Trump said. "Today's meeting is just the beginning of a longer process, but we have taken the first steps towards a better future," he added.

 

Trump: "Our relationship has never been worse than now, but that has changed in the last four hours, I really believe it"
 

Trump has assured that at his summit with Putin, which lasted about four hours, both have maintained a "direct, open and profoundly productive dialogue," and that the meeting "went very well."

"The disagreements between our two countries are well known, and President Putin and I talked about them extensively today," he stressed.

Trump has made a plea for dialogue with Russia, saying that it is "good for the world," and recalled that "even during the tensions of the Cold War, when the world was very different, Russia and the United States. They were able to maintain a good dialogue. "

"As president, I can not make foreign policy decisions in a futile attempt to please the Democrats and the media," Trump stressed in reference to the skepticism that has generated his relationship with Putin in part of his country.

"I prefer to take political risk for the sake of peace than to risk peace for the sake of politics," he said.