Kremlin denies election disruption while FBI points to Russia
During Tuesday's presidential elections, false bomb threats were sent to polling stations in key states—Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin. The FBI attributed responsibility for the false alarms to Russia. Here is the Kremlin's response.
2:39 PM EST, November 6, 2024
Dmitry Peskov addressed the false bomb alarms that occurred during Tuesday's presidential elections in the United States. The Kremlin spokesperson rejected suggestions that Russia was responsible for these incidents. He also denied rumors that his country had anything to do with packages addressed to the United States that caught fire during shipment.
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"Frankly speaking, I don't know who takes such publications seriously. They have completely discredited themselves as unreliable," stated Peskov, as quoted by the Interfax agency.
The Kremlin spokesperson called these media revelations "journalistic inserts."
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported on Tuesday about false bomb alarms in polling stations in the key states of Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin.
FBI data indicates that in Georgia alone, over 20 false bomb alarms were recorded. Many threats were sent from Russian email domains. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger openly accused Moscow of attempting to influence the election results in the United States.
"They do not want us to have smoothly conducted, fair, and accurate elections, and if they can get us to fight among ourselves, they will consider it a victory," Raffensperger said.
In recent months, packages stored in logistics company warehouses in Europe have caught fire. Some of them were addressed to the United States. Western intelligence services found that Moscow was responsible for the dangerous shipments, aiming to trigger explosions on cargo planes flying to the US.
