The ministry said in a statement that Deborah Brunert had received a “resolute” protest against “publicly rude statements about the Russian Federation, its leader and officials, as well as the Russian people.”
After condemning the “unacceptable insulting speech”, the Russian diplomat asserted that “in a polite society, it is customary to apologize for statements of this kind.”
Johnson announced Tuesday night on German television station ZDF that Putin would not have launched the attack on Ukraine if he had been a woman.
He then denounced the Russian military invasion of Ukraine as an “excellent example of male intoxication”, on the occasion of the conclusion of the G7 summit in Germany.
For his part, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace announced Wednesday night on LBC radio that “President Putin’s view of himself and the world is that of a little man, that of a macho.”
Wallace also criticized Russian diplomatic spokeswoman Maria Zakharova for “threatening the whole world with nuclear weapons” every week.
According to the statement from the ministry, Russian diplomacy also considered it “unacceptable” for British leaders to “propaganda with deliberately false information, specifically about the supposed threats from the Russian side to ‘resort to nuclear weapons'”.
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