The Kremlin mocked U.S. efforts to recruit Russian informants, according to a Monday Reuters report.
“The fact is that the United States in recent years is working crudely using its intelligence services, trying to recruit Russian citizens, exerting moral and other pressure on them…. I think these incidents in the most eloquent manner testify to the attempts to interfere in Russia’s internal affairs,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.