Far from speculating, Putin responded from Turkmenistan, affirming that the English premier’s statements were “incorrect” and using the “Iron Lady” as an argument to counteract the conservative leader.
The Russian president gave an example of the United Kingdom itself, recalling that the former prime minister “Margaret Thatcher decided to launch an offensive against Argentina to control the Falkland Islands in 1982”. “There, a woman decided to start a war,” the Russian leader said.
Roces
But Putin’s reaction was not the only one from Moscow. Subsequently, the UK ambassador in that city was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry to protest Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “rude” statements about President Vladimir Putin, Russian diplomacy said in a statement.
Moscow “firmly” protested to Deborah Bronnert 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,” Russian diplomacy stressed, denouncing “insulting and unacceptable rhetoric.”
For his part, the British Defense Minister, Ben Wallace, declared yesterday to the LBC Radio station that “the vision that President Putin has of himself and of the world is a little man syndrome, a macho vision.”
Johnson’s comments were mocked by other Russian officials.
“Great imagination”
“Freud would have loved to have such a subject for his research in life”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the Ria Novosti news agency about the head of the British government.
“Boris Johnson has a great imagination. What the hell did the Seven do together?” commented Maria Zajarova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry on Telegram, referring to the summit of the leaders of the seven main powers of the G7 .
In that sense, the British minister Wallace also criticized Zajarova, 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 “propaganda deliberately false information, especially about alleged threats from the Russian side to ‘resort to nuclear weapons’, Russian diplomacy indicated in its statement.
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