“No, that’s not the case,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov assured the Russian news site RBK.
This claim, citing an anonymous adviser, was published in a new book by American journalist Bob Woodward, to be published on October 15.
According to the account of the American media which had access to the book, the work also claims that Mr. Trump had secretly sent Covid-19 screening tests to Vladimir Putin when he was at the White House, in the middle of coronavirus pandemic, while the United States lacked it.
Russia also criticized on Wednesday the comments of the American vice-president and Democratic candidate for the White House, Kamala Harris, on Vladimir Putin, seeing it as a “frustration” of the United States.
Ms. Harris assured Monday that she would not meet Vladimir Putin to discuss the conflict in Ukraine without kyiv being represented and sought to clearly differentiate herself from her Republican competitor, Donald Trump.
“If Donald Trump were president, Putin would be sitting in kyiv right now, let’s be clear,” she insisted. “He says, ‘Oh, I can end it on day one.’ Do you know what it is? This is a capitulation. »
The Russian Embassy in the United States denounced in a press release on Wednesday “unacceptable” and “insulting” remarks by Kamala Harris about Vladimir Putin.
“This only shows the frustration and impotence of ruling circles in Washington,” assured the Russian embassy, criticizing “offensive rhetoric” and the “anger” of the United States, due, according to Moscow, to their “inability” to manage relations with Russia.
