Russia’s embassy in the United States has stated that Moscow has not interfered in the US presidential election after the authorities had claimed that hoax bomb threats to polling stations had indicated to have appeared from Russia.
According to the FBI on Tuesday, bomb threats to polling stations in several states were likely to have been issued from an email linked to a Russian Domain. Despite the FBI’s stance that the claims were not credible, the organization went on to close most of the polling stations early to help safeguard the lives of the electorates. The polling places were closed temporarily.
The threats were issued after US intelligence last month noted that Russian operatives were behind a fake video purporting to show someone destroying mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania in late October. In response, the Russian Embassy in the US noted that the claims by the US were baseles and aimed at destroying the country’s reputation.
The embassy noted that all the insinuations about ‘Russian machinations’ are malicious slander, invented for use in the domestic political struggle of the United States,” the embassy said in remarks reported by state-run RIA Novosti news agency.
The embassy further stated that they had not received any document that shows evidence of its contacts with US officials or even any requests regarding the story being promoted in the press. They also accused US authorities and media of hysterics over alleged Russian disinformation related to elections.
According to RIA Novosti, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov has continually repudiated Moscow’s electoral interference, saying the allegations were unfounded.
CNN has documented that a spinoff of the Russian “troll factory” that targeted the 2016 US presidential election appeared to be at the heart of a disinformation campaign trying to sway Western and especially US audiences, according to a combined investigation carried out with researchers at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub.
