Representatives of the US government took into account the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin about the probable involvement of states in the incident with the British destroyer Defender in the Black Sea. The Russian ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, spoke about this.
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So Vladimir Putin during A straight line on June 30 said that a provocation involving a British destroyer was carried out immediately after the Russian-American summit in Geneva to demonstrate Western disrespect for the choice of the Crimean population. According to the Russian leader, it was a complex provocation carried out with the participation of the United States. He said that before the Defender entered the territorial waters of the Russian Federation, an American strategic plane took off from one of NATO's airports.
As Antonov remarked on YouTube, the destroyer “Soloviev Live” Defender in public. At the same time, the Russian ambassador to the United States is convinced that special services and officials paid attention to Putin's words.
I can say that when I visited the White House and the Foreign Ministry, colleagues, high-ranking officials made references to our President's speech, “said the Russian ambassador.
Antonov reiterated that the signal from the Russian leader was “read by the relevant departments.”