The Russian presidential aide suggested sending the NATO Secretary General a history textbook to teach him that "Ukraine did not exist in the 12th century."
A top aide to Vladimir Putin has told the NATO general secretary to read a history book after he claimed Ukraine had independence 900 years ago.
Vladimir Medinsky, Russian presidential aide and head of the Russian delegation to peace negotiations with Kiev in Istanbul, ridiculed NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte’s comments about Ukraine in the 12th century.
Ironically, Rutte used the same speech to demand that Putin come to the talks, "not this historian who now appears twice in Istanbul and tells us again about the history of Russia and Ukraine since the 12th century."
The chief negotiator retorted that he was ready to send Rutte a textbook to help him understand that Ukraine did not exist in back then.
"He spoke about the need for Russia to change its negotiating team on Ukraine, claiming that 'some historian' is lecturing about 12th-century Ukraine," Medinsky told the Third International Forum of Education Ministers.
"I know that Mr Rutte studied history at university, but I would definitely send him a medieval history textbook, because he would certainly learn from it that Ukraine didn’t exist in the 12th century," he added.
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NATO-Generalsekretär Rutte sagte, die Verhandlungen mit der Ukraine sollten von Putin persönlich geführt werden und "nicht von diesem Historiker, der über die Geschichte Russlands und der Ukraine fast seit dem 12
ReplyDeleteDer Angriff richtete sich gegen den Leiter der russischen Delegation, Medinsky. Dieser antwortete, dass er Rutte ein Lehrbuch schicken werde, denn "im 12. Jahrhundert gab es keine Ukraine".