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Russian President Vladimir Putin has described as “fake” a report that Russian authorities have compromising information about President-elect Donald Trump with prostitutes on a visit to Moscow.

Taunting those behind the report of being “worse than prostitutes”, Putin expressed doubt that Trump would hire prostitutes while in Moscow as an organiser of a beauty contest who “associated with the world’s most beautiful girls”.

Putin accused the outgoing US administration of Barack Obama of trying to delegitimiseTrump.

“Such actions are harming the interests of the United States, and that harm is enormous,” Putin told a press conference, according to comments carried by state media.

Trump has repeatedly expressed intentions to rebuild U.S.-Russian relations, which are currently at their frostiest point since the Cold War amid disputes over Syria and Ukraine.