As Liz Truss resigned nowadays because the Prime Minister of the UK, Russia has stated Britain has in no way regarded this kind of shame of a PM. “The catastrophic lack of awareness and the queen’s funeral right away after her target target market with Liz Truss might be remembered,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated on Telegram. “Britain has in no way regarded this kind of shame as Prime Minister.” Relations among Moscow and London have deteriorated for years, over troubles which includes the 2018 poisoning of a former Russian undercover agent in Salisbury. They have reached report lows due to the fact 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 became “some distance from democratic”. President Putin had alluded to the truth that she became selected in a management poll through participants of her Conservative party, now no longer through the entire country. “The human beings of Great Britain do not take part, on this instance, withinside the extrade of government. The ruling elites there have their arrangements,” Putin had stated. On possibilities for ties with Britain, Vladimir Putin had stated: “We understand the Tories’ (Conservatives’) function on those questions, inclusive of on members of the family with Russia. It’s their commercial enterprise the way to construct members of the family with the Russian Federation. Our commercial enterprise is to protect our personal hobbies and we are able to try this consistently, permit no person be in any doubt approximately that.” On her first worldwide go to after taking up 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 cease Russia’s power stranglehold on Europe, announcing 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 burdened areas of Russia with areas of Ukraine.