Russia Doesn't Care About The Winners Of The US Presidential Election, Putin: We Will Cooperate With The President Of The Choice Of The American People

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with a number of foreign media editors. (Source: Alexander Demianchuk / TASS via Kremlin)

JAKARTA - President Vladimir Putin said Russia does not worry about whoever wins the United States Presidential Election in November, but insists it will cooperate with the president elected by the people of Uncle Sam's country.

Incumbent Joe Biden of the Democratic Party and former Republican president Donald Trump have so far been the two leading candidates in the presidential election to be held next November.

Speaking to foreign media editors at the economic forum in St Petersburg, President Putin called President Joe Biden's administration, Ukraine's largest supplier of military equipment, making mistakes for mistakes, something he suspected of "burning" the US political system and global leadership.

"Basically, we don't care (who wins)," President Putin said when asked by Reuters if he believed the results of the US election would make the difference for Moscow.

"For us, we do not consider the final result important. We will cooperate with any president chosen by the American people," said President Putin.

Calling incumbent Joe Biden an easy-to-gue old politician, he said Moscow would not interfere in US domestic politics, something US intelligence agencies have repeatedly accused of in the past.

Meanwhile, President Trump's previous term of office has undermined Washington-Moscow relations, he said, and it's difficult to say if this time it would be different if he won the election in November.

"We never had a special relationship with Trump, but in fact, as president he began imposing massive sanctions on Russia, he withdrew from the medium and short-range missile agreement," President Putin said.

"If I say, I speak very sincerely, that we believe after the election there will be a change to Russia's policy of America, I will not say it. We don't think so. We don't think anything really serious will happen," President Putin explained.

However, the Kremlin leader did not rule out policy changes if, as he said, Washington began to pay attention to its own national interests.

"No one in the United States is interested in Ukraine, they are interested in the greatness of the United States, which is fighting not for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, but for its own greatness," he said.

"But if future governments will change the vector of their purpose determination, and will see the meaning of its existence, its work in strengthening the United States from within, strengthening the economy, finance, building good relations in the world, then something may change," he said.

Putin's massive invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which he calls a defensive measure against the expansion of US-led NATO, has led relations between Moscow and Washington to fall to its lowest level since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.