A few days before the summit meeting with US President Joe Biden, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin sees relations with the USA in a serious crisis.

"We have a bilateral relationship that has bottomed out in recent years," Putin said in an excerpt from an interview with NBC News published on Saturday night after a translation by the station.

Biden is radically different from his predecessor Donald Trump, whom Putin described as an extraordinary, talented and colorful person.

Biden, on the other hand, is a "career man" who has spent practically all of his adult life in politics, Putin said, according to the translation.

With regard to Biden, the Kremlin chief also said there were some advantages and some disadvantages, but certainly not impulsive actions on behalf of a US president.

Biden and Putin will meet in Geneva on June 16.

The US president said on Wednesday that the US wanted a "stable, predictable relationship" and was not looking for conflict with Russia.

The White House repeatedly emphasizes that it does not want to reward Putin with the meeting and that a personal conversation is particularly important because of the differences between the countries.