Russia’s ambassador to Moscow said Britain’s royal family had been recommended not to have any contacts with the Russian embassy in London, a report said.
Asked if there had been any contacts with King Charles III, Russian ambassador Andrei Kelin told the Izvestia newspaper, “No, and I know that members of the royal family are advised not to maintain or enter into contact with the Russian embassy.”
Andrei Kelin said most politicians in the West had become “one-day butterflies” who did little serious thinking about the future and were obsessed with scoring futile political points.
“This deprives them of understanding what will happen in a month and a year from now with Ukraine. After all, if things go on like this, Ukraine will become a failed state, a black hole that will have to be patched up,” Andrei Kelin said.
The envoy also said that Russian businessmen, including the so called oligarchs, no longer considered London to be a safe haven.
“No one now would consider the United Kingdom to be a safe haven; it turned out to be a pirate haven,” he said.
This comes as Russia’s relations with the West are at the worst level since the lows of the Cold War after Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine and the West imposed the most severe sanctions in modern history on Russia.