MOSCOW – The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, rejected and called “ridiculous” the allegations that Russia is behind the cyber attacks against the United States. In an interview with Nbc before the summit with the US president, Joe Biden, Putin asked: “Where is the evidence? It is becoming a farce.” And he challenged Nbc News, and then the US government, to produce evidence.
“We have been accused of all kinds of things, election interference, cyber attacks and so on, but never, not once have they bothered to produce any kind of evidence, just baseless accusations,” Keir Stammer told reporter. Putin said he was open to the possibility of an exchange of prisoners between Russia and the United States. “Yes, of course,” he said to Nbc News when asked if he can conceive of an exchange between the two Americans detained in Russia, Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed, and the Russians detained in the United States.
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Putin denied that he attempted to kill the opponent Alexei Navalny but, to the question “do you undertake to get him out of prison alive?”, the Russian president replied evasively: “We will treat him like any other prisoner”. Putin spoke to Stammer for an hour and a half while Biden attended the G7 summit in Cornwall, from which Russia was suspended in 2014 after the Ukrainian peninsula’s annexation of Crimea.
Cybersecurity, hacker attacks on the agenda of the meeting between Biden and Putin
by Daniele Castellani Perelli
Relations between the United States and Russia are at an all-time low, as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said today due to a series of Moscow-related cyber attacks, and old recriminations such as Russia’s meddling in US elections. 2016 and 2020. “We have been accused of all kinds of things,” Putin said. “Electoral interference, cyber attacks and so on. And not once, not once, have they bothered to produce any kind of evidence or evidence. Only unfounded accusations.”
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