MOSCOW, 14 June, 2021 (TON): During an exclusive interview, the Russian President Vladimir Putin called the former U.S. President Donald Trump, a “colorful individual.”

The media quoted the President saying, "Well even now, I believe that former US President Trump is an extraordinary individual, talented individual, otherwise he would not have become U.S. President."

"He is a colorful individual. You may like him or not. And, but he didn't come from the US establishment, he had not been part of big time politics before, and some like it some don't like it but that is a fact," he added.

The remarks came ahead of the much-awaited summit between Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday in Geneva.

In the interview, Putin also said that although relations between Russia and US have "deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years", Biden is a career politician and there was hope that there will not be any impulse-based movements.

He "is radically different from Trump because President Biden is a career man. He has spent virtually his entire adulthood in politics".

"That's a different kind of person, and it is my great hope that yes, there are some advantages, some disadvantages, but there will not be any impulse-based movements, on behalf of the sitting US President," the Russian leader told the media.

However, the relations between Washington and Moscow have been adversarial in recent years, including various issues relating to Ukraine, cybersecurity, human rights and U.S. election interference.