Russian President Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich PutinWatchdog confirms State Dept. canceled award for journalist who criticized Trump Former intelligence agency director Robert Cardillo speaks out against 'erratic' Trump Kremlin: Putin calls for reset between US and Russia on cyber relations before elections MORE said lack of improvement in Russia/U.S. relations are not the fault of President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE, according to Reuters.

“We know that, including during his previous election campaign, he spoke in favor of a normalization but unfortunately it has not happened yet,” Putin said in an interview with Arab broadcasters Al Arabiya, Sky News Arabia and RT Arabic that aired on Sunday ahead of his scheduled Monday visit to Saudi Arabia. “But we have no claims because we see what’s going on in U.S. domestic politics.”

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The Russian president said the U.S.’ “internal political agenda” prevented Trump from taking bigger steps to normalize Moscow-Washington relations, and said Russia will cooperate with any U.S. administration to the extent that the U.S. itself is willing, according to Reuters.

In the same interview, Putin said Russia’s own weapons capabilities were capable of neutralizing any threat posed by Romanian and Polish NATO missile deployments.

“This obviously poses a threat to us because it’s an attempt to level out our strategic nuclear potential. It’s bound to fail, this attempt, it’s already obvious,” Putin said, according to Reuters.