Putin says Trump meeting useful, deplores U.S. sanctions
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- Reuters
- Published Date: 12:00 | 22 August 2018
- Modified Date: 04:58 | 22 August 2018
A summit with U.S. President Donald Trump was useful but U.S. sanctions against Moscow are counter-productive and pointless, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
Putin also said Europe needed the Moscow-led Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline project and that Russia was the most suitable supplier of energy for Europe.
He was speaking at a news conference after talks with Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto in the Black Sea city of Sochi.