Putin said that Moscow would back Harris to win the election in a comment that cited her "expressive and infectious" laugh.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was joking when he said Moscow was supporting Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in November's U.S. presidential election, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Sky News Arabia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has claimed that Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin was "joking" when he declared his support for Kamala Harris' candidacy for the US presidential election. Source: Lavrov in an interview with Sky News Arabia,

Ukraine's president Zelensky is expected to present a strategy for beating Putin's forces to President Biden next week.

Western governments and Russia's exiled opposition should begin laying the groundwork for Russia's democratic transition after President Vladimir Putin eventually leaves office, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician,

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