Russia has sought to distance itself from a dispute brewing between the U.S. and China over the origin of the coronavirus, saying it can't support a U.S. investigation into the source of the virus.
The comments to CNBC by Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, come after current and former U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News last weekPutin had discussed the matter with his U.S. counterpart.
"We don't think this issue of an investigation into the source of this virus is something that we can somehow support, so we don't think this is a proper thing to try to investigate and to blame any nation in the world for this virus without having any evidence actually." It comes as Russia, an ally of China but friend too of U.S. President Donald Trump, tries to stay neutral amid the coronavirus pandemic that has strained U.S.-China relations — already at a low ebb after the drawn-out trade war —further.
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