“We congratulate Donald Trump on entering the office … Moscow is open for dialogue with the United States that will be built on an equal and mutually respectful basis,” Putin said during Russia’s Security and Defense Council meeting Monday.

President Vladimir Putin said Russia is open to dialogue with the US on the war in Ukraine as he offered congratulations to incoming President Donald Trump on his inauguration.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulates Donald Trump on his inauguration, which kicks off a second term in office for the US President. Putin also uses his address to say any pause in the fighting in Ukraine should not be "some kind of respite for regrouping forces",