“This gentleman is against us”: Kremlin about resignation of Russian diplomat at UN

The Russian diplomat at the UN in Geneva Boris Bondarev, who on the eve of resigned and sent a letter to his foreign colleagues about his disagreement with the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine, “opposed the consolidated opinion of Russian society,” said the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.

It was previously reported that in a letter to foreign colleagues Bondarev wrote that he “had never been as ashamed of his country as February 24 this year.” He called the war, unleashed by Russia against Ukraine, “not only a crime against the Ukrainian people, but also probably the most serious crime against the people of Russia.”

Peskov said that the Kremlin was not familiar with this letter, and redirected questions about him to the Russian Foreign Ministry. “Here, probably, we can only say that Mr. Bondarev is no longer with us, rather, he is against us,” Peskov, whose words brought Interfax.

, said.

“He condemns the actions of the Russian leadership, and the actions of the Russian leadership are supported by almost the entire population of our country. So, this gentleman opposed the general consolidated opinion of our country,” the Kremlin representative answered the clarifying question of journalists about what “against us “.