Trump's grim assessment of U.S.-Russia ties came shortly after Tillerson struck a similar tone after meeting with Putin in Moscow.
"There is a low level of trust between our two countries. The world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship," he said at a news conference, adding that Moscow and Washington had agreed to establish a working group to identify problems and improve bilateral relations.
PUTIN-TRUMP HONEYMOON TURNS SOUR
Putin has condemned the U.S. military assault on a Syrian airfield, saying that the move represents an aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law under a far-fetched pretext.
Earlier in an interview broadcast on Wednesday before the meeting with Tillerson, Putin said that mutual trust between Russia and the United States, especially on the military level, had eroded in the first few months of Trump's presidency.
During Tillerson's visit to Moscow on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gave the top U.S. diplomat an earful of criticism over the U.S. strike.
Calling for an "objective and unbiased probe" into the chemical attack in Syria, Lavrov said that Russia has no intention to shield anyone responsible for the incident and repeated Russia's view that the Syrian government was not responsible for the attack.
Russia on late Wednesday vetoed a United Nations (UN) resolution demanding the Syrian government cooperate with an investigation into the suspected chemical attack, saying that Moscow had consistently expressed its "categorical disagreement" with the draft resolution, which led to further criticism from the West, including the United States.
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