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Putin: Powerful Forces Trying To Sabotage US-Russia Ties

Web Desk (July 19, 2018): Russian President Vladimir Putin accused “powerful” forces within the United States of trying to sabotage ties between Moscow and Washington in the wake of a controversial summit with US counterpart Donald Trump.

Addressing Russian diplomats in Moscow on Thursday, Putin described his meeting with Trump earlier this week as “successful”, but warned relations between the two countries remain in “an extremely unsatisfactory state”.“In many respects, [Russian-US relations] are even worse than during the Cold War,” said Putin.

“We see that there are forces in the United States that are prepared to casually sacrifice Russian-US relations, to sacrifice them for their ambitions in an internal political battle.”

Trump has faced widespread domestic criticism in recent days following the summit in the Finnish capital Helsinki on Monday, most notably over an initial refusal to blame Russia for meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.The US president later claimed to have misspoken and said he accepted the US intelligence community’s conclusion of Moscow’s interference.

US intelligence agencies allege Russia did make a concerted effort to meddle in the vote, a charge Moscow has repeatedly denied.

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