cnn's senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen is live in st.g for us this morning. the weather looks lovely for a boat parade today. fred, president putin has promised there was not an arms race between the u.s. and russia. yet, we see all of of this hardware. >> reporter: it is a nice day here and for the naval day parade. you're right. both president trump and president putin want to prevent an arms race but the russians didn't tone it down here at this naval day parade we saw today. i was only a couple of feet away from vladimir putin when he was giving his speech when the parade started. he said two things that were interesting. he said russia's he believes their navy was strong and had to russia help fight terrorism but also to achieve parody and also something, of course, where he specifically is talking about the united states. the russians are saying, look. we are spending less money on arms but, at the same time, we are still very dangerous to the americans and they believe that some of the ships they have shown here today is a part of

frederik pleitgen is live from st. petersburg. hello, freneleiend.imir putin is showing the military promise and hardware here, does he really mean it? >> reporter: i'm not sure if he means it but he did show off russia's new military today. you're absolutely right, martin. it was interesting to see the boats on display here. on one hand a new surveillance ship that is targeted at the u.s. and nato and especially in the baltic theater. then a submarine which is called the aircraft killer which is designed to actually hunt down u.s. aircraft carries and hit them with long-range missiles. something that many people wanted to see or had been looking to see for a very long time is a stealth ship that is supposed to be difficult for the u.s. to combat for the u.s. to track as well which is on display for the first time as well. not all of these ships went past here but all a part of this large parade. vladimir putin did speak a couple of feet from where we are standing right now and interesting to listen to some of his speech. the past couple of days, vla

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cnn's senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen is joining us with the later. what did the putin spokesperson have to say? >> reporter: yeah. it was very interesting, jim a. thing that the russians seem to want to do at the summit is the u.s. to lay off key issues, take them out of the equation to then move on to other areas where they think they can get concessions from the united states. one of them, of course, syria. another one is ukraine. one of the things, however, jim, that the russians say they won't compromise on is crimea and we asked vladimir putin's spokesman today what he thought of the comments hearing from national security adviser john bolton over the weekend saying president trump make it is policy, not him and the russians clearly like what they're hearing from the white house right now. here's what he said. >> translator: how the political will prevailed and understanding that issues we have should not be an obstacle on the path of repairing and expanding the bilateral dialogue. in this case, on the highest level. russian president has repeat