Politico: Anatoly Antonov, Russian ambassador is the loneliest man in Washington

Anatoly Antonov is the ambassador of Russia on USA and at the moment he must feel the loneliest man in the world, as he has no communication with either Washington or Moscow, reports the Politico in a new article.

He also spoke to politico.com and the article entitled “Lonely Antonov: Russian ambassador is the least popular man in Washington“He says he can not speak to US officials because of him war in Ukrainewhile he is said to have fallen out of favor with Putin, again due to the Russian invasion.

In particular, the article states that “since Joe Biden was elected to the White House and especially since the start of the Russian war in Ukraine, he has been avoided by American officials. But he adds that, since 2017 he is in the USA, he has not spoken on the phone even once with the Russian president».

«The last five yearssince I left for Washington, I do not have telephone contact with Vladimir Putin“, Antonov said characteristically to Politico and according to the article tried to downgrade “(to talk) to give the FBI a chance to hear everything Mr. Putin could tell me?”

“Door” from Washington

According to Politico, Antonov stated that can not have meetings with senior White House officials or the US State Department. At the same time, he added that there were American MPs where refused to meet him after the election of the Democratic president Joe Biden and they did not want to be photographed with him.

Anatoly Antonov at a meeting of the Russian Ministry of Defense, October 7, 2016

However, as he stressed in Politico, Diplomatic relations with the United States have not been completely severed and that the Russian embassy still has “technical” or lower level contacts with the Biden government.

However, he said “Honestly, I’m isolated”on the attitude of US officials, while on relations with Moscowsaid that “I had several conversations with senior officials in the Kremlin, in various services. “


Source: News Beast

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