Vladimir Putin backs US president Donald Trump in Lavrov row

Russian president is 'ready to provide recording' of Lavrov-Trump exchange

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to give a transcript of White House talks between his foreign minister and Donald Trump to Congress to prove that the US president didn’t give away secrets.

“We’re ready to provide a record of Lavrov’s discussions with Trump” to the US Congress to prove that no secrets were disclosed “if the American administration would like that, of course,” Putin told reporters Wednesday in Sochi at talks with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni. 

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hasn’t “shared any secrets with me or with representatives of Russian special services” following last week’s meeting in the Oval Office,