Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has faced reporters during a media conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The first question was about the communication that Putin had with his American counterpart Donald Trump who cancelled the planned meeting over the tensions between Moscow and Kiev. Putin said that he answered shortly to Trump’s questions about the incident in the Kerch Strait, but noted that he and US President have different positions on the issue.
“Earlier, we talked about the need to restore our legal and economic cooperation, our cooperation in some hotspots like Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea, this is also a big problem for everybody. On all these matters we need a dialogue,” Putin said, expressing hopes that such a “meeting will happen sooner or later, it will happen when the United States will be ready for that.”
Russia’s president has also discussed the Kerch Strait incident with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“We presented step by step how the events unfolded,” Putin said, adding that facts indicate it was a deliberate “provocation.”
“How can you object to that if the log of the ship says clearly that these vessels were to penetrate our territorial waters in a secret way?”
Putin’s counterparts have reacted “calmly” to what he told them, he added.
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