Russia Rejects Mueller Report That Documents Its Interference

• 04.20.2019, 15:04
•  America,  World

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The Kremlin said on Friday that US Special Counsel Robert Mueller's long-awaited report did not contain any evidence that the Russian state had meddled in the 2016 US presidential election, Aljazeera reports.

Mueller's report, released on Thursday with multiple redactions, detailed extensive contacts between Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian operatives who, it said, sought to tilt the election in Trump's favour.

Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow regretted that the Mueller report was having an effect on its relations with Washington.

"In general, the report still does not include any reasonable evidence at all that Russia allegedly interfered in the US election. 

"We, as before, do not accept such allegations," Peskov said.

"We regret that a document of this quality is having a direct impact on the development of bilateral Russian-US relations that are already not in the best condition," he added.