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As Liz Truss Resigns, Russia Says UK Has Never Seen Such A "Disgrace Of A PM"
As Liz Truss resigned nowadays because the Prime Minister of the UK, Russia has stated Britain has by no means acknowledged any such shame of a PM.
“The catastrophic lack of knowledge and the queen’s funeral right away after her target target market with Liz Truss could be remembered,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated on Telegram. “Britain has by no means acknowledged any such shame as Prime Minister.”
Relations among Moscow and London have deteriorated for years, over problems including the 2018 poisoning of a former Russian secret agent in Salisbury. They have reached document lows given that Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine.
The UK is one in all Kyiv’s staunchest supporters and Russia considers it as one of the maximum unfriendly Western countries.
A day after Liz Truss had changed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister in September, Russian President Vladimir Putin had stated that the manner Britain chooses its leaders changed into “a long way from democratic”.
President Putin had alluded to the truth that she changed into selected in a management ballot with the aid of using participants of her Conservative party, now no longer with the aid of using the entire country. “The human beings of Great Britain do not take part, on this instance, withinside the alternate of government. The ruling elites there have their arrangements,” Putin had stated.
On potentialities for ties with Britain, Vladimir Putin had stated: “We understand the Tories’ (Conservatives’) role on those questions, inclusive of on members of the family with Russia. It’s their commercial enterprise a way to construct members of the family with the Russian Federation. Our commercial enterprise is to shield our very own pursuits and we can try this consistently, permit no person be in any doubt approximately that.”
On her first worldwide go to after taking on as PM, Liz Truss pledged at a UN summit to fulfill or exceed the 2.three billion pounds ($2.6 billion) of navy resource spent on Ukraine in 2002 withinside the subsequent year, doubling down on her assist for Kyiv after Russia’s invasion.
Prime Minister Truss had additionally known as on different leaders on the UN General Assembly in New York to assist give up Russia’s power stranglehold on Europe, pronouncing it has allowed too many lives to be “manipulated”.
Ms Truss had visited Russia as Foreign Secretary in February, simply weeks earlier than President Vladimir Putin despatched troops to Ukraine.
In a strained assembly with counterpart Sergei Lavrov, she careworn areas of Russia with areas of Ukraine.
