Just a few days ago:
Megyn Kelly: But all 17 of the United States’ intelligence agencies have concluded the Russians did interfere with our election, Are they all wrong?
Vladimir Putin: Have you read these reports?
Megyn Kelly: I have read the non-classified version.
Vladimir Putin: A non-classified version means no version. Now you also say, “a non-classified version.”
I have read these reports. There is nothing specific in these reports. There is only supposition and inference in those reports. That is it. To reiterate, this is bringing domestic political squabbles in the US out into the world arena.
It is an attempt to address a domestic political issues with foreign policy tools.
Megyn Kelly: They say it is the forensics, it’s the digital fingerprints, it’s the IP addresses, the malware, the encryption keys, the specific pieces of code – that all of them, all of them, point to Russia and none of them points to anyone other than Russia.
Vladimir Putin: What fingerprints? IP addresses can be simply made up. Do you know how many such specialists there are? They will organise everything to look like it was your three-year old daughter who carried out the attack.
There are such IT specialists in the world today and they can arrange anything and then blame it on whoever.
This is no proof.
It is an attempt to lay the blame at someone else’s door. This is not our problem. The problem is in US politics.
St Petersburg International Economic Forum plenary meeting
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Megyn Kelly: President Putin, you have repeatedly and passionately denied that Russia was behind the interference with our American presidential election. But the consensus view in the United States is that you did. That's what the 17 intelligence agencies have said. Are they all lying?
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: I have not once seen any direct proof of Russia's interference in the presidential election in the USA.
Today's technology is such that the final address can be masked and camouflaged to an extent that no one will be able to understand the origin of that address. And, vice versa, it is possible to set up any entity or any individual that everyone will think that they are the exact source of that attack.
Interview to NBC (full version on Kremlin site)
