Moscow ? “Total rubbish.”

That’s what Moscow has to say about reports that it provided Saddam Hussein with information on U.S. battle plans.

Still, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked her Russian counterpart on Tuesday for an investigation.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov joined a chorus of denials from Russian officials following a Pentagon report that alleged that two seized Iraqi documents indicate Moscow obtained information from sources inside the U.S. Central Command and passed battlefield intelligence to Iraqi officials.

“Naturally, we did not supply anyone with information. And this came up now because it has been three years since the war in Iraq started, and I guess things are not going very well. So (someone) wants to distract the attention, to point at someone else,” Ivanov said. “I believe it is total rubbish.”