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By Reuters Nov 7, 2022 7:53:23 PM IST (Published)
In comments posted by the press service of his Concord catering firm on Russia's Facebook equivalent VKontakte, Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said: "We have interfered (in US elections), we are interfering and we will continue to interfere. Carefully, accurately, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do."
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin on Monday said he had interfered in US elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure who has been formally implicated by Washington in efforts to influence American politics.
In comments posted by the press service of his Concord catering firm on Russia's Facebook equivalent VKontakte, Prigozhin said: "We have interfered (in US elections), we are interfering and we will continue to interfere. Carefully, accurately, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do."
The remark was posted on the eve of the US midterm elections in response to a request for comment from a Russian news site.