The UK ambassador in Moscow was summoned on Thursday to the Russian Foreign Ministry, which protested to her for rude statements of Prime Minister Boris Johnson on President Vladimir Putin, Russian diplomacy said in a statement.
Russia protested “strongly” to Deborah Bronner against “the openly rude statements by the British authorities about Russia, its leader, officials and the Russian people,” the statement said.
“In an educated society, it is customary to apologize for statements of this kind,” stressed the Russian diplomacy, denouncing “insulting and unacceptable rhetoric.”
Johnson’s remarks on Putin
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Germany’s ZDF television late Tuesday that Vladimir Putin would not have launched an offensive in Ukraine if he were a woman. He later denounced the Russian military operation as “a perfect example of toxic masculinity” at the close of the G7 summit in Germany.
For his part, Ben Wallace, British Defense Minister, told LBC Radio on Wednesday night that “President Putin’s view of himself and the world is a little man syndrome, a macho view.”
Wallace also criticized the spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, accusing her of “threatening the whole world with nuclear weapons” every week.
Summoning the British ambassador, the Russian Foreign Ministry also stressed that it was “unacceptable” that British officials “propagandize deliberately false information, especially about alleged threats by the Russian side to ‘resort to nuclear weapons’, Russian diplomacy indicated in its statement.
