“May the one of you who is sinless throws the first stone …” It is by this thought, a real-faised confidence released between a slow sigh and a pinched smile, that Vladimir Putin closed late, Wednesday, June 18 in the evening, his interview with the main international information agencies including the Agency France-Presse (AFP).
Asked about his mistakes in a quarter of a century in power, the chief of the Kremlin did not say more after his two hours of discussion with a dozen editors. On Ukraine as in Iran, he especially unrolled his version of the story, between spikes against Europeans and warm words for Donald Trump. “He's a businessman who calculates everything”underlined the chief of the Kremlin, who spoke with him on the phone five times, since January 20, the date of the investiture of the American president. “And this also applies to his steps towards Russia …”
Four days after his last telephone exchange with Donald Trump, Saturday June 14, the day after Israeli strikes in Iran, Vladimir Putin refused to answer the question directly on the threat agitated by Washington and the Hebrew State of the possibility of eliminating the supreme Iranian guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Source: Lemonde