Putin Praises Ongoing U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Fighting Terrorism

In an interview with Rossiya-1 TV, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated: “We are cooperating with the U.S. despite numerous contradictions on a lot of areas, still cooperation at the level of special services is underway,” he said, speaking to its “Moscow.Kremlin. Putin” broadcast. In particular, this is cooperation on de-conflicting in Syria and a very good working contact was established at the operational level and at the level of military units’ chiefs, TASS reported him saying. “They hand over and repeatedly handed over [data] to us. I thanked incumbent President [Donald Trump] because information that we received from America helped us prevent several terrorist acts in Russia,” Putin declared. “In our turn, we are trying to do the same and we have such an agreement with the incumbent U.S. president that if this information emerges, we will share it and help each other.”