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Russian President Vladimir Putin took time away from orchestrating his military campaign against Ukraine to confirm his endorsement of a candidate in America's 2024 presidential election.

While Putin's voice on the video is significantly muted, an interviewer is speaking.

"If we can name a favorite candidate it was, it used to be Joe Biden," she quotes. "But now he's not participating in the election campaign."

But, the narrator explains, Biden has told people to support Kamala Harris, "So that is what we are going to do."

He expressed hope that she would ease some of America's sanctions on Russia, and "refrain" from future punishments.

The comments came even as the Biden-Harris regime, again like in years earlier, accused Russia of interfering in the presidential election.