After journalist Bob Woodward revealed in his book that the former president Donald Trump He sent covid-19 tests to the Russian president Vladimir Putin In 2020, Russia confirmed that this information was true.
“We sent a batch of lung ventilators to the United States and The Americans sent us several test samples. So, it was a scarce commodity, there just weren’t many of them,” presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov said in his daily telephone briefing.
Peskov recalled that the first tests worked “badly,” so “all countries tried to exchange some type of aid”.
According to Woodward, Putin, terrified by the virus, accepted the supplies but advised Trump not to reveal that he had sent the scarce medical equipment to Moscow.
Woodward, one of the journalists of the famous Watergate case, also assured that Trump and Putin remained in contact after the Republican left the presidency in 2021. He indicated that they would have had about seven phone calls in these years.
However, Peskov denied this assertion: “It’s not true, that didn’t happen.”.
Russia also criticized the comments made about Putin by the US vice president and Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris.
Harris had stated on Monday that she would not meet with the Russian leader to discuss the conflict in Ukraine without kyiv being represented, in a clear attempt to differentiate herself from her Republican rival.
“If Donald Trump were president, Putin would be sitting in kyiv right now, let’s be clear,” Harris insisted, adding: “He’s saying, ‘Oh, I can end this on day one.’ Do you know what that is? “It is a capitulation.” (I)
