The Kremlin said on Friday that the US Special Counsel Robert Mueller's long-awaited report did not contain any evidence that the Russian state had meddled in the 2016 US presidential election.

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Mueller's report, released on Thursday, details extensive contacts between Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian operatives who, it said, sought to tilt the election in Trump's favour.

Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow regretted the Mueller report was having an impact on its relations with Washington.

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