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President Vladimir Putin said that US allegations that Russian hackers or the government itself were behind a series of cyber attacks in the United States were “stuffed” and challenged the US government to produce proof that Russians or Moscow were involved.
“We’ve been accused of all kinds of things,” Putin said in an exclusive interview with NBC News. “Electoral interference, cyber attacks, etc.
In April, the Biden administration imposed sanctions on six Russian tech companies that support the cyber program run by Putin’s intelligence services, as well as dozens of other Russian entities and individuals, for SolarWinds’ massive hacking of federal agencies and interference in the 2020 US election, that the assessed US intelligence was personally commissioned by Putin.
Putin has also denied ordering the beating of his political rival Alexei Navalny, who survived nerve poisoning, but could not guarantee the jailed Kremlin critic would be released alive from prison.
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