Russia brushes off Trump's claim of 'paper tiger' fighting aimless war

The BBC's Steve Rosenberg says far from being riled by Trump's comments, Russia's response has so far been restrained.

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For starters, his description of Russia as a "paper tiger" that had been "fighting aimlessly" in Ukraine.

Moscow won't like that.

I remember when President Barack Obama described Russia as a "regional power", as opposed to a global one: that was taken as a big insult here.

President Trump's suggestion that Ukraine could win back all the territory Russia had seized will have raised eyebrows, too, in Moscow.