Pthe resident referred to intelligence data, from which, as he said, it is clear that Russia is already spreading disinformation in an attempt to influence the congressional elections to be held in 2022
Russia is already trying to interfere in the congressional elections to be held in the United States in 2022 by spreading disinformation, President Joe Biden said after visiting the office of the head of national intelligence, writes The Hill.
He explained that American intelligence has data that suggests that Russia is spreading false information in an attempt to influence the upcoming elections.
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The President also warned about the threat of a “real military conflict”, which could lead to cyber attacks, which Washington accuses Russia of.
The conflict over the accusations of Russia’s interference in the US elections by Washington has been dragging on for several years. The United States is confident that Moscow has taken certain actions in order for the Republican candidate Donald Trump to win over the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.
In the United States, an investigation was underway on this issue for two years: the authorities were trying to determine whether Russia interfered in the process of expressing its will and whether Trump was in collusion with Moscow. As a result, in the spring of 2019, the final report was released, which stated that Russia tried to interfere in the elections, including through social networks and with the help of hacker attacks, but the Trump headquarters did not conspire with the Kremlin.
Reports that Russia had an influence on the course of the elections still appear. So, two weeks ago, The Guardian newspaper published, as it reported, “leaked Kremlin documents”, which stated that President Vladimir Putin personally gave permission for a secret operation to support Trump.
Moscow, in response to each such message, stated that it was not involved in interference in the American elections. The official representative of the president Dmitry Peskov called such accusations paranoid and claimed that they have nothing to do with reality.
“We insist that there was no interference, there is no interference,” he also claimed.
The midterm elections in the United States will be held on November 8. 34 out of 100 senators and all members of the House of Representatives will be elected.
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