Russia has warned that the election of the new prime minister today might further damage its already disastrous ties with Britain.
Russia has been mocking Foreign Secretary Liz Truss for months and she is predicted to defeat Rishi Sunak to become the next prime minister of Britain.
Johnson has already drawn ire from the Kremlin due to his ardent support for Ukraine and is often made fun of on state television.
However, Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson, said today: “I wouldn’t want to argue that things may turn for the worst, since it’s difficult to envision anything worse.
But regrettably, considering that the candidates for the position of British prime minister competed with one another in anti-Russian language, threats to take more action against our nation, and so on, this cannot be ruled out.
I don’t believe we should hold out for anything good, so.
Vladimir Putin said, “Let’s wait and see who becomes prime minister,” when asked whether he would send a congratulations telegram.
During her visit to Moscow in February, when she and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a contentious discussion, Truss became primarily recognised in Russia.
Lavrov complained that the facts had “bounced off” of her and compared their interaction to a conversation between deaf and dumb persons.
Her geographic errors have also been publicly criticised by Russia’s foreign ministry, notably once when she confused the Black and Baltic seas.
At their discussion, Truss directly criticised Lavrov over Russia’s military augmentation close to Ukraine, saying: “I can’t see any rationale for having 100,000 soldiers stationed on the border, except to threaten Ukraine.”
Two weeks later, after initially rejecting invasion plans, Moscow sent in its troops.
Since then, Britain has provided Ukraine with arms and military training, making it one of the most active and vociferous allies of Ukraine in the conflict.
Relations between Russia and Britain have been tense for a while, reaching low points with the fatal London poisoning of former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 and the attempted nerve agent murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England, in 2018.
Officials from the Kremlin said in July that Truss was unqualified to operate the nuclear buttons.
When a Talk TV presenter passed out during a discussion between her and Rishi Sunak, they also charged her for mimicking Margaret Thatcher and behaving out of proportion.
She attempts to imitate the Iron Lady on a tank near the Russian border, according to a broadcaster on Russia’s Channel One.
Then a presenter passed out, and she was unable to control her emotions. What actions would she take in such pressing circumstances?
“This was the point at which her soul left her and the audience saw a regular, terrified lady,” said the author. She responded with fright, dread, and panic.
Her likeness resembles Mrs. Thatcher only on the face, according to some.
She was charged with basing her election campaign on “anti-Russian rhetoric,” according to the Gazprom-owned broadcaster NTV.
Additionally, last week, Putin’s disgusting TV attack dogs called Truss “delusional” and said that she “belongs in the kitchen” in a string of misogynistic remarks.
Liz Truss belongs in the kitchen, not politics, according to Rossiya One commentator Igor Korotchenko.
Korotchenko advised Truss not to “behave like a vulgar woman at a political striptease performance” and to “display a woman’s finest attributes.”
He further implied that he favoured Sunak by calling Truss “uneducated” and “dangerous.”
He said that Truss allegedly threatened to create a nuclear war with Russia. The Foreign Secretary’s promise to go on with renewing Trident, the UK’s nuclear programme, if she becomes Prime Minister, may have been referenced in the statements.
In the meanwhile, Vladimir Solovyov, the public face of Putin’s propagandists, accused Truss of igniting a religious conflict when Britain imposed penalties on the head of the Russian Orthodox church.
She has such grandiose illusions. Such phantasmagoric daring hasn’t been seen since the Tartar and Mongol eras, he said. Who does she believe herself to be?