The unacceptable thesis was allowed that Vladimir Putin’s words about anyone’s lack of interest in the Russian Federation should be taken as “irony in the highest degree.”
The Russian diplomatic mission considers such statements by an official representative of the US administration as open interference in the internal affairs of the State of the Union.
“We are under unprecedented pressure from the collective West,” the embassy website said in a statement.
And when Minsk and Moscow become closer, it irritates the White House, which wants to isolate the two countries.