The Kremlin today rejected reports that Iran has supplied missiles to Russia, saying stated that the allegations of various arms transfers are groundless, Reuters reported, BTA reported.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said yesterday that Russia had received ballistic missiles from Iran and was likely to use them in Ukraine within weeks, warning that cooperation between Moscow and Tehran threatened European security. Tehran called the American claim “ugly propaganda“.
The Kremlin today also indicated that it really does not like the way Vladimir Putin's name was used in the debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and called on them to stop dragging him into their political struggle.
President Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke a week after the Kremlin leader said in a tongue-in-cheek remark that he preferred Harris to Trump, prompting the White House to say Putin should stop commenting on the upcoming November election.
Peskov told reporters that the Kremlin had not followed Tuesday night's debate, but had followed news about it. “Of course, we noticed that both candidates mentioned our president, they mentioned our country. Of course, the position is quite clear - the US as a whole, regardless of which party the candidate is from, maintains a negative attitude, an unfriendly attitude towards our country,”, he said.
„Putin's name is used as one of the tools in the internal political struggle in the US. We really, really don't like that, and we hope they leave our president's name alone,” he said.