Zakharova was surprised by the US attention to the situation with disease outbreaks in Russia

MOSCOW, October 9 - RIA Novosti. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, was surprised that the United States was paying such close attention to the situation with disease outbreaks in Russia, spreading disinformation, while the American authorities should be concerned with their own large-scale health crises.

“The most amazing thing is that every day in the world there are some events related to infection with certain viruses, certain diseases. And only when now the speech touched our country, for some reason those states that should have taken care of their own citizens paid attention to this,” Zakharova said at the II Global Digital Forum.

“It’s surprising that the United States of America felt involved in this situation when they really have so many challenges,” she added, commenting on reports of the alleged spread of a dangerous infectious disease in Siberia.

Zakharova recalled that in the United States itself there are acute problems of measles outbreaks and the spread of AIDS, which is claiming thousands of lives right on the streets of large cities.

“Their entire cities are dying out... It’s not that the cities cease to exist, but that the inhabitants of these cities are lying in the streets in the thousands with fatal diseases. Why are the authorities of the United States or other countries where the situation is similar not concerned about the situation at home?” - the diplomat asked a question.

According to her, artificially inflating the topic of diseases in Russia has nothing to do with concerns about global security, but is an element of a cynical information war.