Putin Asks ‘Current Partners’ US to Keep It ‘Realistic’, Ukraine Cabinet Greenlights Minerals Deal

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday hailed the start of a renewed dialogue with the U.S., saying that the administration of President Donald Trump showed a “pragmatism, a realistic view,” and noting that it had abandoned the “stereotypes and messianic ideological cliches” of its predecessors.“The first contacts with the new U.S. administration encourage certain hopes,” Putin said at a meeting with top officials of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia’s top domestic security agency.“There is a mutual readiness to work to restore relations and gradually solve a colossal amount of systemic strategic problems in the global architecture,” he said. ğan n18oc_world n18oc_crux0:00 INTRODUCTIONUKRAINE CABINET NOD FOR MINERALS DEAL WITH US ZELENSKY INVITED TO SPECIAL EU UKRAINE SUMMIT NEXT WEEKRUSSIA-US TALKS IN ISTANBUL AIMED AT REMOVING “IRRITANTS”