Russia did not meddle in US vote,Vladimir Putin tells Mike Pence

President Vladimir Putin denied any Russian involvement when US Vice President Mike Pence asked last week about meddling in the 2016 election, the Kremlin’s spokesman said.

Dmitry Peskov told Russian television that Pence had “started the conversation with this subject” in a 10-minute talk with Putin on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Singapore.

The Americans are constantly repeating election interference as a mantra,” Peskov said on a Sunday night talk show on Russian state television.

The Russian side also, repeats like a mantra: ‘Why don’t you understand us, how can we explain to you once again that the Russian state has nothing to do and can have nothing to do with interference in internal affairs or electoral processes’,” he said.