US President Donald Trump said that he was very tough with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during their meeting.

"I was very tough with President Putin. We have a very important relationship. It’s going to be a relationship where lots of lives could be saved, like as an example with the ceasefire, which nobody else could have gotten but me," Trump said in an interview with Reuters.

Trump also admitted that he would like to ask the Russian leader whether he supported him during the election campaign. 

“It’s really the one question I wish I would have asked Putin: Were you actually supporting me?" the US president noted.

At the same time, he stressed that he has taken a number of steps during the presidency which, according to him, should not be pleasant  to Moscow.

"Look what I’ve done – oil prices have been driven down. We’re sending LNG to Poland, massive shipments to Poland. That’s not what Putin wants. And for the military, we’ve got $56 billion more of equipment than anybody ever thought of, in the last budget. Putin doesn’t want that – so why would Putin want me?” Trump said.