“We will make it clear to them that doing so is unacceptable. As you saw in the steps of our administration, we will take tough actions that will exacerbate the payoff for the malicious activity of Russia, ”TASS cites the Secretary of State’s statement at a joint press conference with the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defense of Japan.
At the same time, he demanded that Moscow abandon "influence" on the democratic processes in the United States.
On April 18, the US Department of Justice published a Muller report on “Russian interference” in the presidential elections in 2016.
The Kremlin called the accusations against Russia presented in this paper insufficiently reasoned.