US-Russia, a new clash begins. Biden: Putin 'murderer', 'he will pay'

USA-Russia, high tension. A new clash opens between Moscow and Washington Biden: Putin "murderer", "he will pay" Moscow: 'An attack on all of Russia'

A new clash is brewing between Moscow and Washington. Less than two months after Joe Biden's inauguration, the American president today unequivocally attacked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, calling him a "murderer" and promising that he will "pay" for alleged interference in the 2020 American presidential election, as revealed by US intelligence.

Biden and Putin's Conversation

In an interview with ABC, Biden said he had “a long conversation (in late January), he and I… I know him quite well.
“The conversation started like this: I said, 'I know you and you know me. If I ever see that happen, be prepared.'”
The White House chief's statements come in the wake of the release of the US intelligence report, according to which Putin authorized the strategy to denigrate Biden in favor of Donald Trump in the presidential elections, instilling distrust in the electoral system.

Moscow responds

Moscow's reaction to Biden's words came very quickly: "an attack on the Russians"; a "hysterical reaction due to the impotence" of the United States, wrote the president of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, on his Telegram channel.

“Biden insulted the citizens of our country with his statement.” And again: “Putin is our president, attacks against him are attacks on Russia,” the leader “of a country that claims to be a defender of democratic principles and morality cannot behave like this. No one is authorized to speak about our head of state in this way.” And in the morning, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to the accusations made by the intelligence report, saying that Moscow did not try to influence the American presidential elections, calling the report unfounded.

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“We do not agree with the conclusions of this report regarding our country. Russia did not interfere in previous elections and did not interfere in the elections mentioned in this report in 2020. Russia has nothing to do with the campaigns against candidates. In this regard, we consider this report to be incorrect, it is absolutely unfounded,” Peskov told reporters.

The Kremlin spokesman also noted that in recent years every US president has begun his term by imposing sanctions against Moscow, adding that the actions of Russia's opponents are "difficult to predict." Russia's goals were not limited to damaging the candidacy of Biden and aid Trump's re-election bid, the report says, as U.S. intelligence has found that Moscow also sought to undermine “public confidence in the electoral process and exacerbate sociopolitical divisions in the United States.”