Donald Trump vows to work with Russia to solve ‘pressing world problems’

US President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to work with Russia "to solve some of the many... pressing problems and issues of the world!"

In a series of tweets he condemned those who oppose good relations with Russia as “'stupid' people, or fools".

His latest salvo came after an intelligence report said “Russia's president had tried to aid a Trump election victory,” the BBC and other international media reported.

Trump held the Democrats responsible for "gross negligence" in allowing their servers to be hacked.

On Saturday, in a series of tweets, Trump said that having a good relationship with Russia was "no bad thing" and that "only 'stupid' people, or fools, would think that it is bad!" according to BBC.

He hoped that Russia would respect the US more when he was president.

His praise for Putin and intention to build good relations with Russia is summed up in billboard in Montenegro with the slogan “Let’s make the world great again – together.” Large portraits of Trump and Putin accompanied the slogan.

During the election campaign, Trump said frequently that he wanted to improve ties with Russia.

He has also repeatedly questioned US intelligence claims of Russian

hacking in the election campaign.

"Only reason the hacking of the poorly defended DNC is discussed is that the loss by the Dems was so big that they are totally embarrassed!" Trump tweeted on Saturday, BBC reported.

He was referring to the Democratic National Committee, whose email accounts were hacked during the election campaign.

After Friday’s briefing by the intelligence chief on Friday, the president-elect declined to mention Russia, but did say he had "tremendous respect for the work and service done" by those in the US intelligence community.

Earlier, the US Department of Homeland Security announced that voting machines and other election databases would be classified as "critical infrastructure" and given more protection from cyber-attacks.

The unclassified part of the report says that the Kremlin developed a "clear preference for Mr Trump.”

According to the document, Russia's goals were to "undermine public faith" in the US democratic process and "denigrate his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton, harming her electability and potential presidency.”

"We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election," it said mentioned in BBC report.

However, it does not give any detailed evidence of Putin's alleged role.

The report says “Putin liked Trump because he had vowed to work with Moscow and the Russian leader had had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia, such as former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder".

Putin called Trump a “clever Man” who should "quickly understand" his role.

Russia has not commented on the report but has previously denied the claims about influencing the election, BBC added.

Last week, President Barack Obama ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the US over the alleged hacking. Russia has said it will not reciprocate.

A BBC Monitoring report on Russian reaction said Kremlin was yet to react to the report but state media ‘rubbished it’.

"The headline-grabbing accusations are based on TV programmes, posts on social networks and material from entertainment publications," Russia's most-watched TV station Channel One said.

Rossiya 1 TV Washington correspondent Alexander Khristenko said the report was an "attempt to undermine the president-elect's legitimacy".

"Donald Trump himself remained critically-minded about the intelligence services' conclusions," he said, adding that "this is clearly not the sort of reaction from Trump that Washington hawks were counting on."