Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the US-Russia relations should not be held hostage to the probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Moscow’s alleged election meddling, which he called “internal political games.” He made the statement during an interview with Fox News in Helsinki on Monday.
Putin and Trump held bilateral talks in Helsinki on Monday. This was the third meeting between Putin and Trump; the leaders’ first meeting was in July 2017 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg and in November they met at the APEC summit in Da Nang, Vietnam.