Kremlin says US national security strategy document ‘largely consistent' with Russia's vision

By Burc Eruygur

ISTANBUL (AA) - The Kremlin said that the US administration’s new national security strategy document is “largely consistent” with Russia’s vision.

“The adjustments we're seeing, I'd say, are largely consistent with our vision,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin in an interview, a fragment of which was shared on his Telegram on Sunday.

Peskov expressed Moscow’s hope that this could be a “modest guarantee” that they will be able to continue joint constructive work on finding a settlement in Ukraine.

He further argued that US President Donald Trump's domestic political position is strong, which allows him to adjust the country's national security strategy to suit his vision.

Peskov also said that Russia supports the language in the document, which he said contained statements “against confrontation and in favor of dialogue and building good relations.”

“We know that sometimes everything is beautifully written and conceptually sound, but what they call ‘deep state’ does everything differently — that happens, too. Therefore, of course, we need to be very careful about how this concept is implemented,” he added.