The Kremlin's press secretary on Tuesday mocked a CIA video released in an attempt to recruit Russian spies to work for the United States.
Dmitry Peskov said the video should have been posted on the Russian site VKontakte if the U.S. intelligence agency wanted Russians to see it.
“Someone 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 said, state media TASS reported.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mocked the CIA's video attempt to recruit Russian spies. (Reuters)
The CIA video is aimed at Russian intelligence employees disheartened by the country's endemic corruption and the dire conditions faced by military service members.
In the clip, a voice is heard saying that “Russia's top leaders have sold the country for palaces and yachts at a time when our soldiers are chewing rotten potatoes and shooting with prehistoric weapons.”
The three-minute video in Russian was posted on Russia's military intelligence agency according to Reuters.
“Those around them may not want to hear the truth, but we do. They are not powerless,” the news agency says, quoting the video.
The CIA video points to disillusionment with the Russian elite. (INC)
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The clip shows a Russian limousine and people toasting before ending with the man pulling out a cell phone and looking at a web page that says “Contact the CIA.”
Peskov said the CIA releases such recruiting videos every year, TASS reported.
Fox News Digital's Greg Norman contributed to this report.
