Putin calls Trump an ‘outstanding, talented’ man

Putin said his country will try to maintain friendly relations with the Turkish people, but dealing with the country’s leadership has been “practically impossible”.

During his annual press conference, Putin said he would work with “whomever the American voters choose” but singling out Donald Trump as someone he could “get along very well”.

“He [Donald Trump] says he wants to move to another level of relations, to closer and deeper relations with Russian Federation, how can we not welcome that?” “How can we not welcome that?”

“We are interested in resolving this conflict as soon as possible”, Putin said. “And I’m sure that Obama doesn’t like him very much”, Trump said of Putin on CBS’ Face The Nation in October.

“He does not like Obama at all”. In the interview above on Fox News, Trump noted that Putin is a “strong, tough and respected leader”, and he’s “making Obama look bad”. “I would get along with him”. “I’ll tell you why”.

But the Kremlin leader took a hands-off stance on the 69-year-old American billionaire’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

Trump has made it very clear how he plans to handle diplomacy with Russian Federation if he is elected president.

“We are ready and we want to develop our ties with the United States”, he said. He called the GOP contender the “absolute leader” in the race, and a “bright and talented man”.

“Couldn’t they just make a call or warn the military via the communications channels that existed and say: “Look… there are our interests here, so please don’t hit it”?”

On Thursday, Putin also said Russia’s intervention in Syria is “not weighing heavily” on the country’s federal budget.

But Putin insisted he would not comment on any of Trump’s remarks “to prop up his popularity” on the campaign trail.

Trump was asked during one of the debates in September what he would do to get Russia’s military presence out of Syria, and answered that he would first get Putin’s respect.

“It’s a face-saving show of allied support for Turkey while trying to get them to behave more intelligently”, said Nick Witney, a former head of the European Defense Agency now at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

He said that Russian Federation has responded by sending additional warplanes at a base in Syria and deploying the long-range S-400 air defense missile systems there, putting an end to what he said were regular violations of Syrian airspace by Turkish jets.