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PHOTO FILE: Russian President Vladimir Putin (Part 2) speaks with US Vice President Mike Pence (2nd position) at a meeting on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Singapore November 15, 2018. Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / Kremlin via REUTERS
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin told US Vice President Mike Pence that Russia had nothing to do with the interference in the 2016 US election, Interfax reported on Monday. during talks on an upcoming meeting between Putin and President Donald Trump.
Putin and Pence spoke in Singapore about key issues that could be discussed at the meeting between the two leaders, which is scheduled to take place at the G20 summit in Argentina in late November, said a Kremlin spokesman.
Pence raised the issue of outside interference in the US election, but Putin told him that "the Russian state has nothing to do … and can not have anything to to do with "interference" in any electoral process, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, said.
Report by Andrey Ostroukh; Edited by Paul Tait
