
Russia's attempts to intervene in the US Congress will not be left without consequences for her. This was stated by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson an interview with Fox News.
"I think it is important to just continue to say to Russia:" Listen, you think we do not see what you are doing. We see, and you should stop. If you do not stop, then you will continue to call the consequences on your head, ”Tillerson said.
According to the Secretary of State, Russia is already trying to intervene in intermediate elections to Congress in 2018, as it was in the presidential election in 2016. At the same time, the United States is poorly prepared to interfere with such intervention. “I can’t say that we are better prepared because the Russians are also adapted,” Tillerson said. “The fact is that if they intend to intervene, they will find ways to do it.”
The Secretary of State also condemned the support of the Russian dictator Bashar al -Assad, who kills civilians with chemical and ordinary weapons. “They provide air support for the regime. Russia is responsible, they promised that they would take care of chemical weapons in Syria, but it is clear that they did not,” Tillerson noted.
In connection with Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election in the United States, a law on counteracting opponents of America through sanctions was adopted (Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanction Actsa). On August 2 last year, the document was signed by President Donald Trump .
In the USA, Moscow is accused of interfering in election processes in other countries. In November, the State Department transferred to Congress two reports on Russia's attempts to influence elections in Europe .
In December, adviser to President Donald Trump on national security, Lieutenant General Herbert McMaster said the signs of Russian presidential elections in Mexico, as well as the referendum on the independence of Catalonia from Spain. “As for Russia, we are concerned, we are extremely concerned about these sophisticated campaigns of subversive activities, disinformation and propaganda, using cyber technology for this,” McMaster noted. “As you can see, this is a really sophisticated force aimed at the split of democratic societies into different camps and the rubberization of these communities to cause a crisis of trust and to demolish the forces Europe ".