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Barack Obama said that cyber attacks on the US election system had stopped after he personally called on Vladimir Putin to put an end to them. So the US president answered the question asked to him at a press conference why he considers the Russian leader involved in the actions of hackers.

"In early September, when I met Putin President in China, I realized that it would be the most effective to say everything as it is, and warn that we must stop it so that there are no serious consequences. And we, in fact, did not see other interventions in the election process," Obama said.

Obama also referred to the role of the Russian president in making formal and informal political decisions. "Not much of everything happens in Russia without (knowledge) of Vladimir Putin," he said.

The President emphasized that he considers it precisely the "Russian version" the most likely in history with a hacker attack on the servers of the Democratic Party. “The intelligence data that I saw give me great confidence that it was the Russians that carried out this cyber attack,” Obama explained. According to the president, this will be discussed in more detail in the reconnaissance report, which will be prepared until January 20, when the term of his presidential powers expires. Obama promised that all possible evidence that the public can be presented will be reflected in this document.

Obama again repeated that Washington would take response measures against Russian hackers who tried to intervene in the electoral process in the United States.

On Friday, the head of the FBI James Komi and US National Intelligence Director James Clapper supported the CIA statement that Russia had influenced the outcome of the U.S. elections in order to achieve the victory of Donald Trump. In national intelligence, they promised to publish evidence over the next weeks.

Meanwhile, CNN, citing a high -ranking official, reports that cyber attacks were carried out using modern hacking tools equivalent to the US national security agency. This indicates the involvement of the top leadership of Russia in the actions of hackers.

"We do not have Putin’s fingerprints on something like a piece of paper that would prove that he had signed an order, the official said.“ However, the intelligence community believes that this operation could not be performed without the approval of the highest levels of the Russian leadership, including the president itself. ”

On Thursday, Obama promised to take “response measures” in relation to Russia, which intervened in the country's presidential election. “I think we must undoubtedly take measures when the government of a foreign country is trying to influence the inviolability of our elections. And we will accept them - at the time in the place that we will choose,” Obama said in an interview with the National Public Radio.

According to the president, some part of these measures will be "obvious and released", and some of them will not be made public.

“Mr. Putin is well aware of my feelings about this, because I directly spoke to him about it,” Obama emphasized.

The fact that Putin was personally involved in the campaign in the US presidential election, on Wednesday , the NBC television channel, referring to high -ranking sources in intelligence. Putin’s intervention can be said “with a great degree of confidence,” the material said.

On Friday, the ex-candidate of US President Hillary Clinton, at a meeting with former sponsors of her campaign, said that Putin considers the culprit of her election defeat . Clinton explained to cyber attacks to the resources of the Democratic Party in the pre -election period by the fact that Putin "had a tooth on it." The Russian president hid a grudge against Clinton after her statements about the fraud in the parliamentary elections in Russia in 2011, the ex-candidate believes. "Putin publicly accused me of indignant from his own people, and there is a direct connection between what he said then and what he did during these elections," Clinton said.

“This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although it may have added oil into the fire. This is an attack on our country. Here we go far beyond ordinary political problems. We are talking about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our people,” Clinton emphasized.