Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has ridiculed British Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s assertion that ties between London and Kiev date back “thousands of years.”
The UK’s top diplomat arrived in Kiev on Wednesday, where he met with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky and pledged to continue backing the country.
In a post on her Telegram channel late on Wednesday, Zakharova quoted part of Lammy’s speech, as translated by a Ukrainian interpreter, where he insisted that “our partnership is about hundreds and thousands of years.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman added: “… with its roots going as far back as the foot of the Egyptian pyramids?”
“Why not older? [Ukrainians and Britons] also hunted Brontosaurus together,” she quipped.