"If Putin was a woman, he wouldn't do it." The Kremlin mocks Johnson's statements about the Russian president

The Kremlin responded with a sarcastic tone to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's comments that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have launched a special operation in Ukraine if he were a woman.

Asked how the Kremlin evaluated Johnson's words, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian presidency, was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying: "Old Freud, perhaps during his life, dreamed of studying such types of people."

Johnson has stated that Russia would not have launched the special operation in Ukraine if Russian President Vladimir Putin had been "a woman... and obviously he is not."

The British prime minister also described Putin's actions toward Ukraine as an "excellent example of toxic virility".

Earlier, Johnson joked, at a dinner for the G7 leaders, after being asked if they should keep or take off their jackets: "We have to show we're cooler than Putin," suggesting that they show their chest muscles.

Famous photographs were taken of Vladimir Putin, with his chest bare to the waist, on horseback, during a trip to the Tuva region in August 2009, when he was the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

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