Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that if his American counterpart Donald Trump's victory wasn't "stolen" in 2020, there would be no current crisis in Ukraine.
"I cannot disagree with him that if he had been president, if his victory had not been stolen in 2020, perhaps there wouldn't have been the crisis that arose in 2022," Putin told Pavel Zarubin, a journalist from the Rossiya TV channel.
Putin previously described the US president as "trusting and pragmatic" and said that it would be better for them to meet "to talk calmly on all those areas that are of interest to both the United States and Russia," noting that Kremlin is 'ready' for those talks.
