The Kremlin on Monday turned the tables on the US — accusing Washington and America’s intelligence community of meddling in Russia’s internal affairs.

“The fact is that the United States in recent years is working crudely using its intelligence services, trying to recruit Russian citizens, exerting moral and other pressure on them … I think these incidents in the most eloquent manner testify to the attempts to interfere in Russia’s internal affairs,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Peskov had been asked to comment on a report in the New York Times that said that the FBI and Justice Department had tried unsuccessfully to recruit Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska — a comrade of Vladimir Putin’s — as an informer between 2014 and 2016.

The Times said that the effort to flip Deripaska was part of an apparently failed plan to persuade Russian oligarchs to cooperate with the US government.

President Trump tweeted a comment about The Times story later Monday.

“According to the Failing New York Times, the FBI started a major effort to flip Putin loyalists in 2014-2016. ‘It wasn’t about Trump, he wasn’t even close to a candidate yet.’ Rigged Witch Hunt!” he wrote.

His point was unclear, but seemed to undercut his prior claims that the feds’ probe from the beginning was a “witch hunt” designed to take him down.

It’s also unclear where the quote contained in the tweet comes from; it does not appear in the paper’s story.

The Russian charge also comes as special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton is intensifying with the recent guilty plea of Trump fixer Michael Cohen and the conviction of former campaign chair Paul Manafort.

Trump has ramped up his attacks on Mueller in recent weeks and demands that the feds investigate “Crooked Hillary” Clinton.