Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Donald Trump had sent Covid-19 testing equipment to Russia, but the former US President denied this news.
AFP reported on October 10.10 that Peskov said that testing equipment in the early stages of Covid-19 was ineffective and in short supply, so countries tried to exchange with each other. The US sending test kits to Russia is part of an international exchange.
“We sent some ventilators to the US, they also sent us test kits,” the newspaper reported. Moskovsky Komsomolets Russia's 10.10/XNUMX news agency quoted Mr. Peskov as telling reporters.
Previously, in the book titled “War” The upcoming release of American journalist Bob Woodward's memoirs has revealed part of its content, which mentions that former President Donald Trump sent Covid-2020 test kits to Russian President Vladimir Putin in 19.
Woodward also cited Trump aides as saying that former President Trump and Putin had spoken seven times since 7. Dmitry Peskov denied this information. “We sent equipment at the beginning of the Covid-2021 pandemic, but the information about the calls is incorrect,” he said.
Former US President Trump on October 8.10 affirmed that he did not contact or send Covid-19 testing equipment to Russian President Putin. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said that Trump did not give Woodward access to write a book, Bloomberg reported on October 9.10.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris used the book's content to attack Mr. Trump, criticizing him for sending testing equipment to Mr. Putin at a time when the US was short of such equipment.
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