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President Vladimir Putin has said that the Russian citizens indicted by the United States for election meddling didn’t act on behalf of his government, and insisted that Moscow will “never” extradite any of them.

Putin’s comments in an NBC News interview partially aired on March 4 comes after the U.S. Justice Department last month formally accused 13 Russians and several companies of meddling in the U.S. presidential poll in November 2016.

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