Putin said he was ready to sell the United States some of Russia's latest developing and most advanced weapons, including hypersonic missile systems, if Trump was willing to return to serious strategic arms talks after the US backed out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). As Bloomberg relates of the fresh comments made at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok:

"I told Donald, 'if you want, we'll sell them to you and that's how we keep everything balanced right away'," Putin said at the plenary session also attended by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian Premier Narendra Modi. While the U.S. side argued it would soon have such weapons, Putin said "why waste money when we have already spent it and we can get something for it that doesn't harm our security?"