"I expressed the view that the current state of U.S. -Russia relations is at a low point.", Tillerson said.
Stopping just short of accusing Russian Federation of complicity with the sarin gas attack against civilians April 4, Trump said it's "certainly possible" that Russian Federation had advance knowledge of the use of chemical weapons by its ally.
"We have seen very alarming actions recently with an unlawful attack against Syria", Lavrov said, referring to the 59 Tomahawk missiles Trump launched at an air base to punish Assad for using chemical weapons.
Trump has given such criticism short shrift, decrying the "vicious slaughter of innocent civilians with chemical weapons" and calling Assad a "butcher" and an "animal".
But also, the U.S. feels right now that it has made the case that Russian support for Assad must end. "Now is the time Russian Federation needs to show the world whether they genuinely want to be a part of the political process" said Haley. A US defense official says intelligence shows a Russian drone flew over the hospital in Idlib that was treating victims of the chemical attack, prior to the site being later bombed by an unknown aircraft. But in a Fox Business Network interview, the USA president said he wouldn't intervene militarily against Assad unless the Syrian leader resorts to using weapons of mass destruction again.
He called the U.S. military action "genius", and stated that Xi, too, "was OK with it".
Tillerson, who met with Putin earlier on Wednesday, deplored the "low level of trust" between the countries, whose relations have dropped to a post-Cold War low over Ukraine and Syria. "The world's two foremost nuclear powers can not have this kind of relationship".
Mr Lavrov blasted U.S. claims that it has "irrefutable evidence" of election interference.
But neither side cited concrete avenues of cooperation, beyond establishing a working group to address what Tillerson called "smaller issues".
N. Korea army vows 'merciless' response to U.S. provocation
China's comments come amid a series of escalations across the Korean peninsula in recent weeks and increasing concern that U.S. With Barack Obama gone, the United States has taken a new approach to dealing with Pyongyang, and they're not happy with it.
Mr Trump's pre-election calls for closer ties with Russian Federation and Mr Putin seem to have been overcome by their differences over the war in Syria. "Do they want to reduce global relations to the law of the jungle?"
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied carrying out a chemical attack.
China, which has vetoed six resolutions on Syria since the civil war began, abstained from the vote, along with Ethiopia and Kazakhstan.
But Russia, an ally of Syria, used its powers in the United Nations to block it.
"This puts Russian Federation on the wrong side of the argument", British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said in a statement in London. The Kremlin had previously declined to confirm Putin would meet Tillerson, reflecting tensions over the US strike on Syria.
Undaunted by Russia's veto, Trump called on USA allies to "work together to resolve the disaster" in Syria and thanked them for condemning Assad's suspected sarin attack in the town of Khan Sheikhun, which killed 87 civilians. "They were there. So we'll find out", he said.
Russian Federation and Iran are the firmest allies of Assad's regime and have deployed forces to the war-torn country to back him in the country's brutal six-year conflict.
The two sides also agreed to disagree about Ukraine, where Moscow backs rebel forces.
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