After Biden described Putin as a "killer"
Russia's ambassador to America returns to Moscow
Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov.
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The TASS news agency reported that Russia's ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, returned to Moscow yesterday to consult on how to deal with the deteriorating US-Russian relations, after the US President, Joe Biden, said that he believed that the Russian President, Vladimir Putin , "killer".
Last Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that it had decided to summon Ambassador Antonov to Moscow for urgent talks, after Biden said in an interview with ABC that he “believes that Putin is a murderer and will pay the price for his interference in the US elections.”
Moscow denies the US accusations of interfering in the presidential elections, and Putin responded at the time to Biden by saying that "the killer is the one who describes the other as such." He also suggested holding talks with the US president that are broadcast live on the Internet, an offer Biden has not yet accepted.
“The Russian ambassador, Anatoly Antonov, is on his way to Moscow to participate in consultations on correcting Russian-American relations,” the Russian embassy in Washington said on its social media accounts earlier, after it posted a picture of the ambassador at a US airport.
The two countries have previously said that cooperation between them will only take place when it is in their national interest.
The official "First Channel" television network reported that Antonov told reporters before boarding the plane that a lot of work awaited the Russian Foreign Ministry and other parties, but indicated that he had no doubt that keeping the communication channels open is in the interest of the American people. What she said were excerpts from letters from Americans to Antonov before his departure, in which they apologized for Biden's statements in which he attacked Putin.
• The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Ambassador Antonov for urgent talks.
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