Kremlin says relations with US moving ahead very well

The Kremlin said that relations with the United States were moving ahead very well but also cautioned that the damage done to ties with Moscow under the previous U.S. administration was grave.

"Everything is going very well," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state television reporter Pavel Zarubin. "The fact is that reanimating relations from scratch is a very difficult task, requiring very intense diplomatic and other efforts."