MOSCOW (AP) – The Latest on U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Moscow (all times local):
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says relations between Moscow and Washington have deteriorated in the early months of Donald Trump’s presidency.
“It can be said that the level of trust at the working level, especially at the military level, has not become better but most likely has degraded,” Putin said in an interview broadcast Wednesday by state television channel Mir.
Putin also asserted that Syria has complied with an agreement to dispose of chemical weapons “so far as we know.” He reiterated previous Russian assertions that the chemical weapons attack last week that prompted a US Tomahawk missile barrage on a Syrian air base was either a rebel provocation or caused by Syrian warplanes hitting a rebel chemical weapons facility.