Putin announced sympathy for Senator McCain

President Vladimir Putin, in an interview with director Oliver Stone, spoke about his attitude towards Republican Senator John McCain.

“In fact, he is even a little pretty for me. He is pretty to me with his patriotism and his sequence in protecting the interests of his country, ”Putin said.

At the same time, the president expressed regret that people with beliefs, like McCain “live in the old world and do not want to look into the future”, and also do not see “real threats” and cannot “cross over their past”.

Putin also recalled that Russia and the United States were allies in the First and Second World Wars.

The full interview of Putin Stone will be released in June.

McCain stands for strengthening anti -Russian sanctions and regularly criticizes the President of the Russian Federation, calling him, in particular, a “killer”. In his opinion , Putin's priority is “the restoration of the Russian Empire”.

Senator John McCain, a participant in the war in Vietnam, in 1967 was shot down by an anti -aircraft missile production of the USSR and was captured. McCain, a senator from Arizona since 1983, ran for the US president in 2008, but lost to Barack Obama.