MOSCOW. July 10 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of setting up a bilateral cyber security unit at their recent meeting, but time will show whether it is actually going to be set up, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
"It's true that they talked about the possibility of setting up such a group. Whether it is going to be set up or not, time will show this, but the leaders talked about this possibility," Peskov told journalists on Monday.
"Moreover, you know that the president [Vladimir Putin] offered the necessary assurances and explanations to President Trump that any allegations that some official Russian institutions were involved in cyber attacks during the election campaign in the U.S. were pure inventions and didn't reflect reality," he said.
It is in this context that it was said at the meeting that "interaction is the best form of counteraction against cyber terrorism," he said.
Peskov disagreed with how journalists interpreted Trump's tweet that such a unit cannot be set up.
"He tweeted not exactly this. Anyway, the wording was somewhat different," he said.
When some of the journalists pointed out that Putin had said at a press conference about an agreement to set up a relevant group, Peskov said, "The parties agreed that they'll be working on setting up such a group."
"Nobody promised each other anything, and there was no such a goal. What's positive is that the willingness to work in this direction was acknowledged," Peskov said.
Trump's remarks cannot affect Putin's confidence, Peskov said. "Why should it affect it somehow? No, it can't," he said.