A Joe Biden presidency would be better for Russia than a
Donald Trump one, Russian President Vladimir Putin told pro-Kremlin journalist
Pavel Zarubin in an on-camera interview Wednesday.
Asked by Zuribin about the upcoming US presidential
election, Putin said Biden would be better for Russia “because he is a more
experienced person, he is predictable, he is a politician of an old formation.”
However, he added that Russia would “work with any leader
of the US that gains the trust of the American people.”
Putin also said that in order to judge the actions of the
current administration one should look at its “political position.”
“I believe that the position of the current administration
is extremely harmful and erroneous,” Putin said in a reference to Russia’s war
in Ukraine.
According to Putin, that war “could have been over a year
and a half ago” if agreements during a meeting in Istanbul in March 2022 were
kept. Putin didn’t specify what agreements he was referring to.
The Russian president said he regretted that he “didn’t
start active actions in Ukraine earlier” than February 2022, claiming that
Western leaders had lied to Russia about “not expanding NATO to the East.”
“We were and are concerned about the possibility of
Ukraine being drawn into NATO, since this threatens our security,” Putin said.
Putin also alleged that the Minsk agreements, a ceasefire
protocol signed by Ukraine and Russia in 2015, was never meant to be kept but
used “to buy time to load Ukraine with additional weapons.”
The Russian leader also expressed disappointment around
his recent interview with far-right media figure Tucker Carlson.
“I honestly thought he would be aggressive and ask tough
questions. I wasn’t only ready for that, I wanted that, because it would give
me the opportunity to give tough answers back,” Putin said.
“To be frank, I didn’t fully enjoy that interview,” he
said.
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