He called the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba a primitive and propaganda speech, who called for "finding ways to remove Russia from participating in the OSCE as soon as possible."

“But no one supported this topic, because it is impossible to do this taking into account the procedures, and the political expediency of this step,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

Earlier, the US representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Michael Carpenter, called Russia's expulsion from the OSCE unlikely.