The British ambassador in Moscow was summoned this Thursday to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation to receive official Russian protests against the “Rude” statements by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on President Vladimir Putin.
In a statement, the Ministry said that Deborah Bronnert received a strong protest against “openly rude statements about the Russian Federation, its leader, those responsible, as well as the Russian people.”
after reporting “unacceptable insulting rhetoric”Russian diplomacy stressed that “in an educated society, it is customary to apologize for statements of this kind.”
Johnson told Germany’s ZDF television station Tuesday night that Putin would not have launched the offensive in Ukraine if he had been a woman.
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He then denounced the Russian military invasion of Ukraine as “a perfect example of male toxicity”on the occasion of the closing of the G7 summit in Germany.
For his part, UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace declared Wednesday night on LBC Radio that “President Putin’s view of himself and the world is the little man syndrome, a macho view.” .
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Wallace also criticized Russian diplomatic spokeswoman Maria Zakharova for “threaten the whole world with nuclear weapons” every week.
Also according to the Ministry’s statement, Russian diplomacy also considered “unacceptable” that British leaders “propaganda with deliberately false information, that is, about the alleged threats by Russia to resort to nuclear weapons.”
Source: Observadora
