Pompeo: Russia is an enemy and it is clearly involved in the recent cyberattack

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed his conviction that Russia is on the US list of “enemies”, and blamed it for the recent large-scale cyber attack on his country.

On Friday, Pompeo said in an interview with broadcaster Mark Levin on Fox News, the US State Department published his full text: “They always ask me who is our enemy, and my answer is that there are many people who want to undermine our lifestyle, our republic and our basic democratic principles, and Russia in particular.” Within this list. “

The American minister stressed that Russian President Vladimir Putin still poses a “real threat to those who love freedom,” adding: “I classify China today as a challenge that actually poses an existential threat, but I do not underestimate the risk of hundreds of nuclear warheads (in Russia) capable of Targeting the United States, which is a huge risk for us.

In response to the massive cyber attack that recently targeted electronic networks of government and private institutions in the United States, Pompeo indicated that investigations are still ongoing and that some data on the subject will not be declassified, stressing that the hackers have made concrete efforts to exploit software produced by a third party to incorporate code Malicious in the systems of the US government and private companies as well as the governments of other countries.

He continued, “These efforts were tangible, and as far as I think, we can say clearly now that it was the Russians who were involved in these activities.”

Source: RT

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