Two heads of state in the world right now maintain that the Russian government didn't perpetrate a cyber attack on the U.S. election last year: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Following on his assertion Thursday that a Russian patriot might have just taken matters into his own hands, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday advanced his version of Trump's fictitious "400-pound hacker" when he was pressed on it by NBC's Megyn Kelly at an economic conference in St. Petersburg (as translated in real time):

“What are you talking about? IP addresses, they can be invented... A kid of yours can send it, your girl that is 3-year-old can perpetrate such an attack, they present it like this, they can pass it off like this, and the specialists can invent anything and then they will blame someone else. These are not proofs.

Putin went on to say there's "no specific evidence, no facts, just assumptions allegations and conclusions based on allegations, nothing more."

Notably, Putin has never denied the election was hacked—he's just offered up two inane theories on back-to-back days that curiously happen to track Trump's explanation, although one of those explanations does implicate a Russian.

Meanwhile, moments before the interview began at the St. Petersburg conference, Russian banker Surgey Gorkov dodged persistent questioning from NBC reporter Keir Simmons about his mid-December meeting with Jared Kushner.

Video of that interaction below.