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Russia has mocked Britain’s foreign secretary for not knowing the difference between the Baltic and Black seas, as Boris Johnson prepares to discuss the Ukraine crisis with President Putin today.
Maria Zakharova, Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, took Liz Truss to task over her comment that “we are supplying and offering extra support into our Baltic allies across the Black Sea.”
Zakharova pointed out that the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are located off the Baltic Sea, not the Black Sea, which is more than 700 miles to the south, via Belarus, a key Russian ally.
“The Baltic countries called so because they are located precisely off the coast of this [Baltic] sea. Not the Black [Sea],” Zakharova wrote on Facebook. “If anyone
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