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

ISTANBUL

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."

In separate remarks from an earlier interview with the Russian state news agency Tass, published earlier in the day, Peskov was quoted as saying that Moscow considers the new document a "positive step" and that it intends to study it in detail.

"Overall, these messages certainly contrast with the approaches of previous administrations," he added.

Peskov's remarks come as the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy document on Thursday, outlining foreign policy and defense priorities.

The document defined negotiating an "expeditious" cessation of the over-three-and-a-half-year Russia-Ukraine war as a "core interest" of the US.

It said the US efforts seek to "stabilize European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war, and reestablish strategic stability with Russia, as well as to enable the post-hostilities reconstruction of Ukraine to enable its survival as a viable state."

The document also argued that managing Europe's relations with Russia, which it said are "deeply attenuated" due to the Ukraine war, will need significant US diplomatic engagement, "both to reestablish conditions of strategic stability across the Eurasian landmass, and to mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European states."