Vladimir Putin
The President of Russia Vladimir Putin commented on the scandal surrounding the indictment of the President of the United States Donald trump is that he allegedly gave classified information to the Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The head of state made the corresponding statement on Wednesday, 17 may, speaking at a press conference following the meeting with the Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni. The broadcast led TV channel “Russia 24”.
“We see that in the United States develops the political schizophrenia. Anything else I can’t explain the charges of the incumbent President that he gave to Mr Lavrov as any secrets,” said Putin.
At the same time, according to him, Moscow highly appreciates the results of the meeting of Lavrov and trump. “This was the first visit, the return visit of our Minister of foreign Affairs after we took in Moscow, Secretary of state [US Rex] Tillerson. This is the natural and ordinary international practice,” — said the President of Russia.
Meeting the US President and the Russian Minister was held may 10 at the White house. A few days later, the Washington Post reported that during the negotiations, trump revealed some secret information. Then American TV channel NBC News, citing its sources said that trump has shared information about the plans of terrorists to arrange an explosion on Board one of the ships with a bomb planted in a laptop.
Later, trump confirmed that during the meeting with Lavrov shared “data on terrorism and flights safety”. In General, a meeting with the Russian Minister, he praised as “very very successful”.