The Kremlin confirmed that Trump had sent Covid-19 testing equipment to Russia.

AFP reported on October 10 that Peskov said that testing equipment was ineffective and insufficient in the early stages of Covid-19, so countries tried to exchange it with each other. The US sending test kits to Russia was part of this international exchange.

"We sent some ventilators to the US, and they also sent us test kits," the Russian newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets quoted Peskov as telling reporters on October 10.

Former US President Donald Trump (left) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland in 2018.

Previously, in the upcoming book titled " War" by American journalist Bob Woodward, some content was revealed mentioning that former President Donald Trump sent Covid-19 test kits to Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2020.

Woodward also cited Trump's aides as saying that former President Trump and Putin had spoken seven times since 2021. Dmitry Peskov denied this information. "We sent the equipment at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, but the information about the calls is inaccurate," he said.

Former US President Trump asserted on October 8th that he did not contact or send COVID-19 testing equipment to Russian President Putin. A spokesperson for Trump's campaign, Steven Cheung, stated that Trump did not give Woodward any access to write a book, Bloomberg reported on October 9th.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris relied on the book's contents to attack Trump, criticizing his sending testing equipment to Putin at a time when the United States was experiencing shortages of such equipment.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/dien-kremlin-xac-nhan-ong-trump-tung-gui-thiet-bi-xet-nghiem-covid-19-cho-nga-185241010194640572.htm