"Obviously, the purpose of this throw-in is to spoil the atmosphere before the Russian-American summit. Now influential political forces of the United States, who oppose the normalization of relations between our countries and have been exposing themselves for two years with blatant slander, are hurrying to squeeze the maximum out of the next "dummy", which will quickly be forgotten, "the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The authorities consider the incident to be a shameful comedy that disgraces the US.
"The question remains: for how long will they continue to break this shameful comedy that disgraces the US. After all, sooner or later, its initiators will have to be responsible for the damage they have caused and continue to inflict on their own narrow-interest interests to cause American democracy, undermining the credibility of it, "the Foreign Ministry stressed.
Earlier it became known that the United States put forward new charges against 12 Russians suspected of involvement in allegedly hacking attacks during the presidential campaign in the US in 2016.