Russian President Putin first commented on the situation in the US, saying that the ongoing protests in this country are signs of a deep crisis.

"What happened is a sign of a deep internal crisis," Russian President Vladimir Putin today said in an interview with Rossiya 1 when asked about the situation in the United States recently.

He linked the current unrest with protests with the Covid-19 pandemic, emphasizing that the US "is experiencing overall problems".

The Russian TV channel only posted a short excerpt of the interview with President Putin, which will air in full on June 14.

Putin said Russia was gradually escaping from Covid-19 with minimal losses but looking toward the US, "things did not work that way".

Russia today recorded 8,835 new nCoV infections, bringing the total number of country infections to 528,964, the third largest epidemic region in the world, after the US and Brazil.

Putin criticized the US's drastic leadership in dealing with the epidemic when "the president said it was necessary to do this and that but the governors told the president what to do."

"I think the problem is that the group interests, the party interests are higher than the whole society and the interests of the people," he said.

"In Russia, I don't think anyone in the government or the region will say 'we don't do what the government asks, what the President asks, because we think that's wrong'"

Demonstrations still take place throughout the United States and many countries after the death of George Floyd, 46-year-old black man was killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25.