– Broken relationships can’t be broken. They are already broken – he said Vladimir Putin in an interview with the state television Rossija 1.
He also argued that the lack of congratulations has only formal reasons and that there is no subtext to it, in particular, it does not mean that the Kremlin would prefer to see The White House Donald Trump in place of the Democratic candidate.
In his opinion, the congratulations should wait until the end of legal procedures in the US and – as he put it – the end of the “political confrontation” in the United States.
After the previous US presidential election in 2016, won by Trump, Putin was one of the first foreign leaders to congratulate him.
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