Putin was joking about support for Harris in US election, says foreign minister

“President Putin has a staunch sense of humour. He in total jokes all the method by method of his statements and interviews,” Lavrov acknowledged.

Reuters

21 September, 2024, 09:05 pm

Final modified: 21 September, 2024, 09:09 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin became once joking when he acknowledged Moscow became once supporting Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in November’s US presidential election, International Minister Sergei Lavrov acknowledged in an interview with Sky News Arabia.

Putin acknowledged earlier this month that Russia wanted Harris to salvage the competition in a teasing comment that cited her “infectious” laugh as a motive to select out her over Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump. The Russian leader’s observation triggered the White Apartment to deliver Putin must easy discontinuance commenting on the Nov. 5 election.

“It became once a comical chronicle,” Lavrov acknowledged, when asked how a lot the swap in US president would impact Russia’s foreign policy. “President Putin has a staunch sense of humour. He in total jokes all the method by method of his statements and interviews.

“I stumble on no long-term differences in our attitude to the recent or old elections within the United States, on myth of it’s dominated by the infamous ‘deep utter’,” Lavrov acknowledged, with out giving evidence for that assertion.

Lavrov’s comments own been published on the foreign ministry internet region on Friday.