Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied any involvement in Moscow in the cyber attack on the US fuel network, which paralyzed supplies in the eastern United States.

He said in response to US President Joe Biden’s statement that “The virus program associated with the attack may be in Russia”: “Russia has nothing to do with this attack.”

In response to a question about Moscow’s willingness to interact with Washington on the issue, he added: “The United States refuses to cooperate in combating cyber crimes.”

Biden announced earlier, At the present time, the US intelligence community has no evidence of Russia’s involvement in the attack on the Colonial pipeline operator. ”

He pointed out that“ criminal elements crossing borders, not a specific country, were behind the cyber attack. ”

And the American “Colonial Pipeline” company announced last Saturday that it was “attacked by the” ransomware “virus, noting that” due to the attack, the work of the pipeline that provides fuel to 45% of the population of the eastern coast of the United States has been suspended. ”

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