Russia previously wanted Joe Biden to win the US presidential election but is now supporting Kamala Harris over Donald Trump, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday (5).
Putin had said earlier this year, before Biden dropped out of the race, that he preferred him to Trump because Biden was a more predictable “old-school” politician.
The statement comes a day after the Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to confront a massive Russian-backed effort to influence the 2024 U.S. presidential election, including unsealing criminal charges against two Russian citizens, sanctions on 10 individuals and entities and the seizure of 32 internet domains.
At the behest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, three Russian companies used fake profiles to promote false narratives on social media, US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement.
Two employees of RT, the Russian state media network, have been indicted in a U.S. court for allegedly taking part in a scheme that funneled nearly $10 million to create and run a Tennessee-based shell company to produce online content aimed at sowing divisions among Americans, according to the Justice Department.
Taken together, the actions represent the Biden administration’s most significant public response to alleged Russian influence operations against American voters.
After the U.S. accused Iran of trying to hack the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns in August, Wednesday’s actions are a reminder that U.S. officials continue to view Russia as a major foreign influence threat to the November election, the sources said.
(With information from Reuters)
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