MOSCOW, June 13. /TASS/. Moscow took no step to worsen relations with the United States in the security sphere, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.

"We have not taken any single step that would worsen the situation," the Russian leader said in an interview with the program, Moscow. Kremlin. Putin, on the Rossiya-1 TV channel. A fragment of Putin’s interview was posted on the smotrim.ru website on Sunday.

As an example, Putin cited the issues of security, the so-called red lines on the deployment of combat strike systems.

"Take Poland and Romania, for example: missile defense systems are already being deployed there and strike complexes can be installed. We, however, have withdrawn our military base from Cuba. We are not doing this while our partners are, unfortunately, engaged precisely in that," Putin stressed.

"I very much expect and hope that this personal meeting [with US President Joe Biden in Geneva on June 16] will at least create conditions for us to discuss such problems," the Russian leader noted.