Russia denies accusations by Britain and its allies of trying to steal research on coronavirus vaccines.
London, United Kingdom:
The Russian ambassador to London denied accusations by Britain and its allies of helping hackers target laboratories carrying out research on the coronavirus vaccine in a British television interview to air on Sunday.
Andrei Kelin said Thursday that allegations by Britain, the United States and Canada that a hacking group called APT29 was behind the online attacks, and “almost certainly” linked to Russian intelligence , had “no meaning”.
“I don’t believe this story at all, it makes no sense,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, adding that he had learned about the hacking collective from reports. in the British media.
“In this world, it is impossible to assign any type of hackers to any country.”
Kelin, who was appointed as the first envoy from Moscow to Britain last November, also rejected a separate London claim that “Russian actors” were seeking to disrupt the UK general election last year.
British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said on Thursday that the authors had circulated leaked trade documents between Britain and the United States in an effort to sow further division in the competition.
“I see no point in using this subject as a matter of interference,” said Kelin.
“We are not intervening at all. We see no point of interference … we will try to settle relationships and establish better relationships than today.”
Russia and Britain have disagreed since Moscow was accused of attempting to kill double agent Sergei Skripal with a powerful military grade nerve agent in 2018.
The attack on Salisbury, in the south-west of England, took place 12 years after the radiation poisoning of former spy Alexander Litvinenko in London.
Again, Russia denied involvement and Kelin said the country was ready to end controversy.
“We are ready to turn the page and we are ready to do business with Great Britain,” he added.
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