President Trump isn't the only one who thinks his Monday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin went well. Putin himself on Thursday deemed the Helsinki summit "successful," The Associated Press reports. And he isn't happy with Trump critics who have said otherwise.
Before the summit, Putin thought U.S.-Russia relations were "in some ways worse than during the Cold War," he told Russian diplomats Thursday, per AP. But his meeting with Trump put the two countries on "the path to positive change."
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Still, he's open to seeing "how things develop further" with America, and expressed interested in cooperating in the Syria war and arms control, AP reports.
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