Allegations that Russia tried to influence US elections in favour of Donald Trump amount to a witch-hunt, the Kremlin said on Monday, in its first reaction to the release of a US intelligence report on the alleged Russian operation. Read: US intel report: Trump team continues to blame Democrats for email hackingKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said no new evidence had been produced to show that Russian officials were involved. “We are observing a serious fatigue with these accusations,” Peskov said. Both Trump and Putin have said they want to restore US-Russian relations, and the Kremlin spokesman indicated that Moscow was looking beyond the hacking row and ahead to the new administration. Peskov said once Trump was inaugurated on January 20, work will begin on finding a date for a first meeting between the Russian and US leaders.

Source: Hindustan Times January 09, 2017 13:37 UTC