Michael Flynn and Vladimir Putin © EPA/MICHAEL KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL NEW YORK, June 4. /Offset. TASS Alexey Kachalin/. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with the former assistant to the President for national security Lieutenant-General in the resignation of Michael Flynn, but was not acquainted with him. The head of the Russian state said in an interview with NBC, a fragment of which is posted on the website of the American television. Putin asked to explain how the year before, Flynn was sitting at one with the Russian President at reception in honor of the Russia Today TV (RT). According to the Russian leader when he arrived at the event, at the table sat next to a gentleman. “I gave a speech, and then we talked, then I got up and went away,” said Putin, adding that later he was informed that it was the American
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