Russia mocks Trump's attempt to 'break' World Health Organization

Russia: 'US attacks are untenable'

A senior Russian official expressed support for the World Health Organization and Russia's ally China in an interview published Tuesday.

On Monday, impeached U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to freeze WHO funding, and continued to push disproven conspiracy theories about the origins of the novel coronavirus in China.

Tweets from Russian state media and from international media observing today's remarks, below.

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#BREAKING Russia slams US attempts to 'break' World Health Organization pic.twitter.com/csvTnNOG6a

— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 19, 2020

#UPDATE President Trump has threatened to pull the US out of the World Health Organization, saying it botched the global #coronavirus response and was a "puppet of China" -- prompting rebuke from Beijing which said Washington was "shirking responsibility" https://t.co/dXfCoAVeF1 pic.twitter.com/ulRRj8vhUj

— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 19, 2020

AFP: Russia slams US attempts to "break" World Health Organization amid pandemic

— Patrick deHahn (@patrickdehahn) May 19, 2020

#BREAKING | 'US attacks are untenable': Russia criticises Trump's threats against WHO https://t.co/wqPiafp8Ib#SputnikBreaking pic.twitter.com/l0e0JvSVLm

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) May 19, 2020

Russia will oppose any "mock trial" of WHO, China over coronavirus, senate speaker says https://t.co/735igi0qLb

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) May 19, 2020

#Russia has just been elected to the #WHO Executive Committee. We are ready for constructive work and substantive contribution to the work of the Organization and global cooperation in the field of health. pic.twitter.com/hmdl2Kqdu8

— Russian Mission in Geneva (@mission_russian) May 19, 2020

Permanent Representative of #Russia to @UNGeneva Gennady #Gatilov taking part in the opening of 73rd World Health Assembly #WHA73 pic.twitter.com/wq3TSYAYBm