Vladimir Putin isn’t ready to recognize Joe Biden as the next president, says relations between Moscow and Washington are ‘already ruined’

That’s Russian President Vladimir Putin explaining to Russian state TV in an interview on Sunday why he’s not ready to acknowledge Joe Biden as the next president of the United States.

Putin, one of the few remaining global leaders not recognizing Biden as the winner of the election, was quoted by Bloomberg as basically saying he doesn’t believe it matters what he says at this point because relations between the U.S. and Moscow are “already ruined.”