Russian Foreign Minister denies interfering in US midterm elections

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on November 6 denied allegations of Russian interference in the US midterm elections.

Speaking while visiting Spain, Mr. Lavrov said that these accusations were meaningless.

Previously, in response to reporters' questions about accusations by some US cybersecurity experts that Russia interfered in the US midterm elections, the Kremlin spokesman also said that he could not comment, because Russia did not know clearly who made these accusations and whether these people really understood cybersecurity.

The Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Director of National Intelligence previously issued a joint statement saying that the US intelligence community determined that no election infrastructure had been breached prior to the 2018 midterm elections that could have interfered with voting, changed vote counts or disrupted the vote counting process.

The world's largest social networking site Facebook also announced that it had blocked about 30 Facebook accounts and 85 other accounts on the photo-sharing application Instagram, due to concerns that these accounts may be related to foreign entities plotting to interfere in the US midterm elections./.