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 Kremlin says Trump and Harris should leave Putin out of their fight.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it did not like the way Vladimir Putin’s name was bandied around in the US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and urged the candidates to stop dragging him into their political fight.

The Russian president’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, was speaking a week after Putin said in a teasing remark that he favoured Harris over Trump, prompting the White House to say Putin should stop commenting on the November election.

Peskov told reporters the Kremlin had not directly followed Tuesday night’s debate, but had tracked news reports of it.

“Of course, we noticed that both candidates mentioned our president, mentioned our country. Of course, the position is quite clear - the US as a whole, no matter which party the candidates are from, maintains a negative attitude, an unfriendly attitude towards our country,” he said.

“Putin’s name is used as one of the instruments in the domestic political struggle in the US We really, really don’t like it, and we hope that they will leave our president’s name alone.”