Russia lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya said that during the meeting she did not discuss Russia’s alleged intervention in the U.S. elections.

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya is sorry about sitting down for a meeting with Donald Trump’s son in New York in 2016. Veselnitskaya voiced her regrets in a written statement directed to the Senate Judiciary Committee, television network NBC reported on December 5, 2017. Veselnitskaya’s statement answering the committee’s questions spans 51 pages, dispelling the allegations of Moscow’s attempts to interfere in the last year’s election campaign in the U.S.

“Now that I know the kind of apocalyptic Hollywood scenario [t]hat a private conversation between a lawyer and a businessman can be turned into, I very much regret that the desire to bring the truth to the congressmen has thrown the U.S. President’s family, as well as Mrs. Clinton, into the whirlwind of mutual political accusations and fueled the fire of the morbid, completely groundless hatred for Russia,” Veselnitskaya’s letter reads. In her statement, Veselnitskaya maintains that the meeting with the U.S. President’s son did not relate to any external interference in the U.S. elections.

According to NBC, the lawyer rejected the claim that she was acting on behalf of the Russian authorities. Her only desire was to draw attention the Trump campaign’s attention to the adoption of the so-called Magnitsky Act in the United States in 2012, as well as the introduction of sanctions against a number of Russian officials. According to the news networks, at the meeting, President Trump’s son was interested in possible illegal funds transfers involving Clinton and her husband former President Bill Clinton.

NBC’s story says that Veselnitskaya assured the Senate Judiciary Committee that she had no such information and that Mr. Trump’s son quickly lost interest and ended the conversation.

“Today, I understand why [the conversation] took place to begin with and why it ended so quickly with a feeling of mutual disappointment and time wasted,” Veselnitskaya went on to say. “The answer lies in the roguish letters of Mr. Goldstone,” she added, referring to the British music producer and writer Rob Goldstone, who arranged the meeting and was present there.

Donald Trump Junior previously admitted that he met with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in New York in June 2016. The U.S. President’s son did not deny that he agreed to an interview and was hoping to get information compromising the former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate. White House political opponents say that the meeting confirms the ties between Trump’s election campaign and Russia.

According to CNN, eight people were involved in the meeting held at the Trump Tower, including the presidential advisor and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, now former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, Goldstone, and three other people. According to CNN, these people were lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, which has U.S. and Russian citizenship, vice president of the Russian Crocus Group holding Irakli Kaveladze, as well as a U.S. citizen translator Anatoly Samochernov.

Veselnitskaya has consistently denied the version that she worked for the Russian authorities. The lawyer also said that she did not have any “dirt on Clinton.” The Russian President’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov had earlier stated to news reporters that Kremlin was unfamiliar with who Natalia Veselnitskaya was.