War in Ukraine: France summons the Russian ambassador for “unacceptable” caricatures – archyde

France is raising its voice. The Russian ambassador in Paris was summoned this Friday to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the publication of caricatures on his Twitter account deemed “unacceptable” by French diplomacy. Among the drawings, one of them shows Europeans on their knees licking the buttocks of Uncle Sam who points to the United States, accompanied by a message in English: “European solidarity as it is . “I recalled in a previous message to what extent the Kremlin feels in a moral war against the West. This complete cracking of the Russian Embassy in France is a striking example. pic.twitter.com/jrpAbv5kKs— Julien Pain (@JulienPain) March 24, 2022 “We strive to maintain a demanding channel of dialogue with Russia” but these “actions are completely inappropriate”, declared the Quai d’Orsay, who summoned Alexei Meshkov as the war in Ukraine rages. A cartoon that mixes Russophobia and Covid-19A second cartoon features an allegory of sick Europe, lying on a bed, to whom its torturers – United States and European Union – inject different substances labeled “neo-Nazism, “Russophobia” or “Covid-19”. The Russian Embassy confirmed that “the question of the published tweet was raised, among other points” during the interview on Friday morning, while the tweet and cartoons have since been taken down. The Russian Ambassador, Alexei Mechkov, for his part “drew the attention of our French colleagues to the provocations and acts of vandalism against Russian diplomatic representations in France”, added the embassy.