Russia's ambassador to London denied accusations by Britain and its allies of helping hackers attack the labs conducting research on the coronavirus vaccine, in a UK television interview to be broadcast on Sunday.
Andrei Kelin said Thursday's accusations by Britain, the United States and Canada that a group of hackers called APT29 was behind the online attacks, and "almost certainly" linked to Russian intelligence, "made no sense."
"I don't believe this story at all, it doesn't make sense," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, adding that he had learned about the existence of the hacker collective from British media reports.
"In this world, attributing any type of hacker to any country is impossible."
Kelin, who was named Moscow's top envoy to Britain last November, also rejected a separate London claim that "Russian actors" were seeking to alter last year's UK general election.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday that the authors had distributed leaked trade documents between Britain and the United States, in an attempt to sow further division in the contest.
"I don't see any point in using this topic as a matter of interference," Kelin said.
"We don't interfere at all. We don't see any point in the interference ... we will try to establish relationships and establish better relationships than now."
Russia and Britain have been at odds since Moscow was accused of trying to kill double agent Sergei Skripal with a powerful military-grade nerve agent in 2018.
The attack in Salisbury, southwest England, came 12 years after the radiation poisoning of former spy Alexander Litvinenko in London.
From NDTV News
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