Russian President Vladimir Putin has made fun of the fact that his country is being blamed for so many issues during an interview with NBC News.
“We have been accused of all kinds of things,” Putin said. “Election interference, cyber-attacks and so on and so forth. And not once, not once, not one time, did they bother to produce any kind of evidence or proof. Just unfounded accusations.”
Putin described the American claims that Russian hackers and the Kremlin were targeting the US as “farcical.”
“I’m surprised that we have not yet been accused of provoking the Black Lives Matter movement,” he added.
Recently, US President Joe Biden announced sanctions against six Russian firms and 32 individuals amid accusations of involvement in the last election and the Jan. 6 riot.
But Putin expressed his expectations that both countries would find a way to conciliate their mutual interests and appease tensions ahead of the highly anticipated Russian-American summit.
“It is our great hope that we will be able to set up this process with our US partners,” Putin concluded.
