Putin says all countries will have problems if trade wars continue

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that all countries in the world would face big problems if trade wars continued.

Asked at the St Petersburg economic forum about a bitter trade row between China and the United States, Putin said Russia supported democratic economic relations. (Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh and Katya Golubkova; writing by Maria Kiselyova; editing by Tom Balmforth)