The Kremlin’s press secretary on Tuesday mocked a CIA video launched in an try to recruit Russian spies to work for america.
Dmitry Peskov mentioned the video ought to have been posted to Russian website VKontakte if the American intelligence company wished it to be considered by Russians.
“Somebody should tell the CIA that VKontakte is much more popular here than the banned X (formally Twitter) and that VKontakte has a much larger audience,” Peskov mentioned, state media TASS reported.
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The CIA video targets Russian intelligence staff turned off by the nation’s endemic corruption and the dire circumstances confronted by its army service members.
Within the clip, a voice is heard saying Russia’s “top leadership has sold the country out for palaces and yachts at a time when our soldiers are chewing rotten potatoes and firing from prehistoric weapons.”
The three-minute, Russian-language video was posted on X. “Why did I contact the CIA: For the sake of the Motherland,” contains a fictional male character working for Russia’s military intelligence agency, in response to Reuters.
“Those around you may not want to hear the truth. But we do. You are not powerless,” the information company quoted the video as saying.
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The clip reveals a Russian limousine and other people giving toasts earlier than ending with the person pulling out a cellphone and an online web page that has the phrases “Contact CIA.”
Peskov mentioned the CIA posts such recruitment movies yearly, TASS reported.
Fox Information Digital’s Greg Norman contributed to this report.