RUSSIA has slammed claims it has compromising material on US President-elect Donald Trump branding the story "total nonsense."

Yesterday it was reported that a Brit spy uncovered evidence of shocking sexual information held by Russia on Trump.

7 Russia has denied it has uncompromising material on President-elect Trump Credit: AP:Associated Press

7 A spokesman for Vladimir Putin called the claims 'total nonsense' Credit: Getty Images

A Kremlin spokesman insisted the unsubstantiated dossier had been fabricated and also denied it had information on Hillary Clinton.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, spoke to reporters on a conference call and called the dossier a 'fake' and 'fiction' which had been dreamt up to further damage US-Russia relations.

He reportedly said: “The Kremlin does not have compromising information on Trump.”

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American news giant CNN opened the political can of worms by reporting that top US intelligence chiefs briefed trump on the explosive claims during a meeting on alleged Russian interference in the presidential election.

The full dossier of the British spy’s unverified claims details allegations of “perverted sexual acts” by prostitutes in a Russian hotel room containing Trump.

The report sensationally claims that President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama slept in the same suite at the hotel and that Trump wanted to 'defile' the bed which they slept on because "he hated" them.

The hotel room, at the Moscow Ritz Carlton, was bugged by Soviet intelligence agencies, the report alleged.b

After the CNN report, Buzzfeed published the full document which had reportedly been offered to a variety of other news outlets who declined to publish the story because the claims could not be verified.

Trump hit back at the claims branding them "fake" and part of a "political witchhunt".

He tweeted: "FAKE NEWS — A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”

Trump is due to be sworn in as the 45th US President on January 20.

He was reportedly shown the classified information during a briefing by four of the most senior US spy chiefs — including FBI director James Comey and CIA director John Brennan.

7 Plush . . . one of the bedrooms in the Moscow Ritz-Carlton's top suite Credit: Alamy

7 Donald Trump and model Olivia Culpo are seen at the Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow in November 2013 Credit: Getty Images

7 The first page of the leaked dossier which contains unverified claims about Russian intelligence gathering on Donald Trump

CNN said knowledge of its existence in Russian hands originally came from a former British MI6 intelligence operative.

The spook was reportedly hired by other US presidential contenders to do political "opposition research" on Trump in the middle of last year.

The FBI was given the information in August, more than two months before the November 8 election, according to CNN.

Shortly after CNN's report, Buzzfeed published the full dossier which the site said makes claims which their journalists could not verify.

The full document also alleges that Russia has been "cultivating, supporting and assisting" Trump for "at least five years."

Kellyanne Conway, one of Trump senior campaign advisers, slammed the report during an interview on chat show Late Night with Seth Meyers.

7 Hearings . . . FBI Director James Comey addresses Senate Armed Services committee Credit: Getty Images

She then said: “I have to say as an American citizen… we should be concerned that intelligence officials leaked to the press but won’t go and tell the president-elect or the President of the United States himself, Mr Obama, what the information is. They would rather go tell the press.”

When Meyers said that the billionaire was reportedly briefed on the claims, Conway said Trump “was never briefed.”

Conway attempted to cast doubt on the dossier, saying that it came from "unnamed sources".

She said: "Nobody has sourced it. They are all unnamed, unspoken sources in the story.

"It says it was based on a Russian investigator... it also says that groups that wanted Hillary Clinton to win may have been behind the investigations themselves and most importantly, it says the FBI is trying to confirm it."

Should Buzzfeed have published the explosive and unverified claims? Buzzfeed’s decision to publish the full unredacted document has sparked a debate over media ethics. The dossier was reportedly offered to other media outlets, including the Guardian and NBC, who refused to publish it because the claims could be not be verified. But when CNN reported that Trump had been briefed by the CIA on the lurid claims, Buzzfeed decided to publish the document in full. The online news outlet posted the dossier along with the warning that it contained errors and claims that were “unverified and potentially unverifiable”. Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith has released a statement insisting that the site published the material so ‘Americans could make up their own minds about the allegations’. He defended the site’s decision stating that ‘publishing this dossier reflects how we see the job of reporters in 2017’ and added that he had ‘serious reason to doubt the allegations.’

But US intelligence agencies have now checked out the former Brit spy and find him and his sources credible enough to include some of the information in its briefing to Trump, CNN said.

CNN reports that the dossier was “generated by political operatives seeking to derail Mr. Trump's candidacy.”

The retired MI6 spy was reportedly hired by a political research firm who worked for both Republican and Democratic enemies of Trump.

The Brit intelligence operative reportedly passed the explosive material to an FBI colleague.

But in another twist, Senator John McCain, who clashed with Trump during his divisive election campaign, was also given the dossier by a UK diplomat last month, reports the Guardian.

McCain has now confirmed that he passed the material directly to FBI Director James Come, reports the Mail Online.

The Arizona senator and former Presidential candidate said: "Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public.

"Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgement about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI.

"That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue."

7 Probe . . . James Clapper, US director of national intelligence, testifying on Russian hacking Credit: Getty Images

US intelligence also concluded President Putin launched a cyber attack against Hillary Clinton's campaign to meddle in the US election and to boost Trump's White House bid.

Trump has repeatedly dismissed the CIA's finding while expressing the need to smooth over Russia-US relations which have eroded during the Obama presidency.

Before the election it was rumoured that the Kremlin was holding sensitive information on Trump.

Also last night Russia accused Britain of plotting an “official anti-Russian witch-hunt” in an outburst posted on its London embassy website.

It suggested some Brits are hoping to claim the Brexit vote was hacked by Russia and it claimed the UK government will try to turn Trump against Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Meanwhile the Russian foreign ministry has blasted the outgoing Obama administration.

Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: "Everyday I read news from Washington - new sanctions against Russia, supplying thugs in Syria with MANPADS, absolutely senseless and malicious actions on all fronts of the foreign policy.

"God created the world in seven days. Obama's administration has two days more than that to destroy it."

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