"The call had to do also with the fact that we will probably get together in the not too distant future so we can discuss arms, we can discuss the arms race." Trump's overture to Putin was criticized by top senators in his own Republican party, who called Sunday's election a sham. Speaking of the arms race, Trump said: "We will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have." Putin, seen with U.S. President Donald Trump in this 2017 photo, will now lead Russia for another six years. Putin and Trump agreed on the need to avoid an arms race and discussed "a possible high-level meeting," the Kremlin said.

Source: CBC News March 20, 2018 21:45 UTC