Let's go to the prince

The deputy Russian ambassador in London, Alexander Kramarenko, met with the representative of the British Foreign Ministry in connection with the recent statements of Prince of Wales Charles about Russian President Vladimir Putin, BBC reports . Moscow regarded them as outrageous.

However, the conversation of the two diplomats resulted in a wider discussion about Russia's actions against Ukraine and turned out to be quite sharp.

Prime Minister David Cameron refused to comment. His deputy nickname Klegg, without going into the essence of the statement himself, said that the prince "has the right to express his own point of view." The leader of the Labor, Ed Miliband, in turn, said that the prince said everything correctly and that many British are sharing Charles's fears about Putin’s actions in Ukraine.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich at a briefing noted that Moscow requested official clarifications from the British side regarding the statement of the Crown Prince. "Before talking about the consequences (for Russian -British relations. - Ed.), We will look at the official reaction of the British authorities to our request," Lakshevich said.

The day before, Prince Charles, on a visit to Canada, compared Putin with Adolf Hitler . Commenting in a private conversation Russian policy against Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, Prince Wales remarked: "And now Putin does almost the same thing that Hitler did." The words of the prince were brought by the Daily Mail newspaper.

Prince Charles said this phrase during a visit to the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Galifax. The tour for him was conducted by 78-year-old Mariene Ferguson. She arrived in Canada at the age of 13 from Poland. Some of her relatives died during the Holocaust.

The press service of Prince Charles said that they would not comment on the prince's private conversation. However, in Clarens House, the residence of members of the Royal Family of Great Britain, nevertheless, clarified: "It was a private, soulful conversation with a lady who lost his family in the Holocaust."

In March, when Moscow began to issue Russian passports to residents of Crimea, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held the same parallel between Putin and Hitler. “Does this not remind you of an eye?” Said Clinton. “Hitler did the same in the 1930s.”

On June 6, on the anniversary of the landing of the allied troops in Normandy, the meeting of Prince Charles with Putin is planned at celebrations in France.