Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin and his top team seem to have chosen a rather unorthodox way to congratulate Donald Trump on his re-election to the White House.

The Russian president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that while Putin was open to dialogue with the States, he was “not aware of the president’s plans to congratulate Trump.”

Peskov claimed that the US “currently has the opposition position” to Moscow and is an “unfriendly country that is directly and indirectly involved in a war against Russia”.

The war in Ukraine began in 2022 when Putin ordered the invasion of his European neighbour in a land grab.

Western allies have been providing Ukraine with funding and weaponry to help it fight off Russia, but have deliberately avoided being pulled directly into the conflict so as not to spark a global conflict.

Still, Trump has spoken favourably of Putin over the years – calling his invasion “genius” and........

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