Russia's U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin said that tensions with the United States are probably the worst since the 1973 Mideast war, ABC News reported.
However he also noted that Cold War relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. more than 40 years ago were different than U.S.-Russia relations today.
"The general situation I think is pretty bad at this point, probably the worst ... since 1973," he said in an interview with three journalists at Russia's U.N. Mission. But Churkin said that "even though we have serious frictions, differences like Syria, we continue to work on other issues ... and sometimes quite well."
According to him, that wasn't the case generally during the Cold War.
