'Takes one to know one': Putin-Biden spat escalates over 'killer' accusation
by Theo Merz in Moscow and Luke Harding in London from on (#5FGMV)
Officials in Moscow go on offensive after Biden says Russian president will pay price for election meddling
Russian relations with the US have entered a new post-Trump period of smouldering hostility after Vladimir Putin shrugged off accusations from Joe Biden that he was a killer", saying: It takes one to know one."
The Russian president responded in characteristically icy fashion to Biden's remark, which followed an assessment by US intelligence agencies that Moscow was continuing to meddle in American democracy and had tried to help Donald Trump win last year's US election.
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