US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the United States does not intend to start relations with Russia from scratch. He told about this in an interview with NBC's Meet The Press program on Sunday, May 14. According to Tillerson, the term "reset" is used too often. "It is important to understand that we are not trying to start from scratch," he said.. «Reloading is not possible. You can not just erase the past. It is impossible to start from scratch. We will start from the place where we are now, "the Secretary of State stressed.. Tillerson pointed out that relations with Russia are "at the lowest level since the end of the Cold War," and an extremely low level of trust remains between countries. "I think the situation is regarded as unhealthy for the whole world," he said, adding that such a situation also negatively affects Americans and US interests. The Secretary of State added that Moscow and Washington have a number of important issues to be resolved. According to him, one of them is Russia's interference in US presidential elections. "I think it was well documented, and we very well understand the nature of this intervention here and elsewhere," Tillerson said.. On May 10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with US President Donald Trump. The White House, according to its results, said that the head of state expressed the intention to improve relations with Moscow. Lavrov, in turn, called the staff of the Trump administration people of the case. The day before, the Foreign Ministry said that to normalize Russian-American relations, it is necessary to eliminate a number of acute irritants created by the previous administration of US President Barack Obama.

Washington believes that Russia is responsible for a series of cyberattacks against American political organizations committed during the election campaign in the United States in the fall of 2016. On January 6, a declassified version of a report on this topic was published, prepared by the CIA, the FBI and the NSA. Moscow has consistently denied all accusations. On December 29 last year, Obama announced the introduction of new restrictive measures against Russia.

Original article: Tillerson denied resetting relations with Russia.