UkraineRussia war, US President Joe Biden’s ‘insulting’ remarks about Vladimir Putin bring RussianUS relations to ‘strain point’ This was announced by the Russian Foreign Ministry, according to the Ria Novosti agency, reporting that a protest note was handed over to the United States Ambassador in Moscow John Sullivan today. “These statements by the American President, unworthy of such a highranking statesman, have brought RussianUS relations to the brink of rupture,” the ministry said.
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Sullivan, summoned to the ministry, was warned that hostilities against Russia would be “resolutely and resolutely opposed”. In addition, the ambassador was asked to “ensure normal working conditions for Russian diplomatic missions in the United States.”
President Biden last week called Putin a “war criminal,” a “homicidal dictator,” and a “pure thug.” The Kremlin, through its spokesman Dmitry Peskov, defined the US President’s words as “unacceptable” and “unforgivable”.
In an interview he conducted today at the Russian State Department, Sullivan “called on the Russian government to comply with international law and basic human decency by providing consular access to all American citizens detained in Russia, including those on remand.” So we read in a tweet from the US Embassy in Moscow, which recalls having “repeatedly asked for consular access to all American detainees” and that this has been “constantly and unreasonably denied for months: this is totally unacceptable”.
Last week, the State Department confirmed that officials at the US Embassy in Russia failed to meet Brittney Griner, the basketball player who was arrested last month when Customs police found a refill of hash oil in her luggage, the electronic cigarette.
Former Marines Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed are also being held in Russia. A State Department spokeswoman, Jalina Porter, said Friday the embassy continues to “push unsuccessfully for consular access to all detainees, including Ms. Griner,” emphasizing “deep concern” at the impossibility of meeting American citizens detained in Russia.
Meanwhile, the President of the Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, has called on the United States Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against Biden. “Arms sent to Kyiv end up in the hands of neoNazi battalions like Azov’s,” Vyacheslav Volodin said.
“The US Congress must end the double standards and make it clear to Biden what he has done. If the US is a rule of law, there is no other choice,” Volodin said on Telegram, adding that it is a matter for the court in The Hague act “.