Former Donald Trump's press secretary Stephanie Grisham wrote in her book that Fiona Hill, Trumps' former aide on Russia, suggested that Putin had deliberately selected an "attractive brunette" as his interpreter at a meeting with the US leader in Japan in 2019 to distract Trump.
"Interpreters are provided by the foreign ministry at the request of the presidential administration. Putin himself is not involved in this process," Peskov said, answering whether these statements were true.