Kremlin says Trump and Harris should leave Putin's name out of US political battle

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that the Kremlin really did not like the way Vladimir Putin's name was bandied around in the debate between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

Peskov told reporters that Putin's name was being used as part of the domestic political fight in the U.S. and "we really, really don't like it".

He said the U.S. was hostile and negative towards Russia, and the Kremlin hoped that the candidates would drop such references to Putin.

Last week the White House said Putin should stop commenting on the U.S. election after he said in an apparently teasing comment that he favoured Harris over Trump and that her "infectious" laugh was one of the reasons why.

(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov; Writing by Anastasia Teterevleva; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)