The British ambassador to Moscow was summoned Thursday (30 June) to the Russian foreign ministry, which protested to her over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “rude” remarks about President Vladimir Putin, Russian diplomacy said.
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Russia “strongly protested” to Deborah Bronnert “the patently impolite statements made by the British authorities towards Russia, its leader, its officials and the Russian people,” she said in a statement. “In a polite society, it is customary to apologize for statements of this nature,” underscored Russian diplomacy, denouncing “unacceptable offensive rhetoric.”
“A perfect example of male toxicity”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told ZDF on Tuesday evening that Vladimir Putin would not have launched the offensive in Ukraine if he had been a woman. He then condemned this Russian military operation as “a perfect example of male toxicity” and closed the G7 summit in Germany. For his part, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told LBC radio on Wednesday night that “President Putin’s view of himself and the world is a poor man’s syndrome, a macho view.” Ben Wallace also fumed at Russian diplomacy spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, accusing her of “threatening everyone with nuclear weapons” every week.
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In summoning the British ambassador, the Russian Foreign Ministry also stressed that it was “unacceptable” for British officials to “willfully disseminate false information, particularly about the alleged threats by the Russian side to use nuclear weapons,” the press release said Russian diplomacy.
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