Kremlin:

Putin Told Pence Russia Did Not Meddle in US Election

TEHRAN (defapress)- Russian President Vladimir Putin told US Vice President Mike Pence Moscow had nothing to do with meddling in the 2016 US election, Interfax reported on Monday, during discussions about an upcoming meeting between Putin and President Donald Trump.

News ID: 73822

Date: 19 November 2018 - 15:32

Putin and Pence spoke in Singapore last week about key issues that could be discussed at the meeting between the two leaders, expected to take place at the G20 summit in Argentina in late November, a Kremlin Spokesman stated.

Pence raised the issue of external meddling in the US election but Putin told him that "the Russian state had nothing to do ... and can not have anything to do with meddling" in any electoral processes, Interfax quoted Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.

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