MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday in a July 4 message to President Barack Obama that he hopes that the ties between the two countries will get back on track.
Relations between Moscow and Washington hit a post-Cold War low in 2014 when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and threw its weight behind separatists in eastern Ukraine. The Kremlin, however, has recently sought to seek rapprochement with the United States.
Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)
In the Independence Day message released by the Kremlin, Putin recalled the history of Russia-U.S. ties, saying that at one time the …read more
Source: The Blaze
