The embassy of that country in Uruguay clarified that the complaints are “unfounded and without any type of evidence.”
The embassy of Russia in Uruguay came out to deny the government’s accusations of USAwhich in the last few hours alerted at least 26 countries about the actions of that country to try to influence in some way elections between 2020 and 2022.
From the diplomatic headquarters of the country at war with Ukraine They pointed out that the complaints are “unfounded and without any type of evidence”, after the US intelligence services warned about the intervention in at least 11 elections of nine countries and doubts about the validity of the elections of another 17 countries through campaigns on social networks, information sent through a diplomatic cable sent by the Department of State of the North American country.
The Russian embassy in the country stated that “unlike the traditional practice of North American political elites and financial structures of directly supporting certain political forces in other states, Russia “It always respects the free expression of the will of the citizens of each country and is willing to work with any democratically elected government.”
In the letter, they assured that the country headed Vladimir Putin “does not practice in its politics the organization of ‘color revolutions’ and ‘coups d’état’, as some other well-known countries do,” so they considered that this type of data “only confuses the Uruguayan and Latin American public.” , distracting him from his burning problems.”
The US government’s warning
In the diplomatic cable, the US government indicated that there are increasing efforts by the Russian intelligence services to “globally undermine democratic processes,” by influencing election results through disinformation campaigns.
“Russia is carrying out operations to degrade public confidence in the integrity of the elections themselves,” they noted in the telegram, addressed to Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Mexico in America; and Spain, Italy, France and the United Kingdom in Europe.
In this regard, they stated that “in a case in South America, russian channels Telegram included false news reports of alleged fraud and Russian trolls on social media platforms amplified concerns about post-election instability and violence,” but refusing to identify which country occurred.
Source: Ambito
