Russia slates 'baseless, amateurish' US election hacking report

Vladimir Putin's office says intelligence agencies' accusations are unfounded and amount to a political witch-hunt

The Kremlin has hit back at a US intelligence report blaming Russia for interference in the presidential election, describing the claims as part of a political witch-hunt.

"These are baseless allegations substantiated with nothing, done on a rather amateurish, emotional level," Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists on Monday. "We still don't know what data is really being used by those who present such unfounded accusations."