Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov joked at a forum in Paris on November 12 that Moscow would intervene in the 2020 US presidential election.

"We will solve the problem, don't worry," Lavrov said at the Paris Peace Forum 2019, when asked by the host how Moscow prepared for the 2020 US election, causing the audience laugh.

Lavrov's answer wanted to mention the alleged Kremlin's interference in the 2016 US election, with Trump winning the then Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

Speaking at a Russian Energy Week Conference in Moscow earlier last month, Putin also joked that Russia "will inevitably interfere with the US presidential election" next season. Putin soon recovered his seriousness and declared that Russia had "its own problems" so it needed to be focused on solving.

Moscow has always denied it when Washington was accused of meddling in the 2016 election. Trump has also repeatedly denied any contact with Russia during his campaign. The US president also criticized Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, who was assigned to investigate Russia's interference in US elections and called the investigation a "witch hunt".

Trump is currently facing considerable pressure to try to investigate impeachment from Democrats, related to his July phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Zelensky.