Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that “we will see” if Trump’s campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine would lead to action.
“We have repeatedly said that the U.S. is able to contribute to the end of this conflict,” Peskov said. “This cannot be done overnight, but … the U.S. is capable of changing the trajectory of its foreign policy. Will this happen, and if so, how … we will see after [the U.S. president’s inauguration in] January.”
Peskov added that he wasn’t aware of any plans for President Vladimir Putin to congratulate Trump on his election win and said relations between Russia and the United States are still hostile.
“Let us not forget that we are talking about an unfriendly country, which is both directly and indirectly involved in a war against our state [in Ukraine],” Peskov said.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is now a senior security official, said Wednesday that a Trump presidency could be beneficial for Russia: “Trump has one useful quality for us: As a businessman to the core, he mortally dislikes spending money on various hangers–on.”
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