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Putin fires the Russian ambassador to the US

2024-10-10 15:47:10Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Putin fires the Russian ambassador to the US
Anatoly Antonov

Vladimir Putin has issued a decree dismissing Russia's ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov.

The decree is dated October 10 and was signed by the Russian president. The published order does not give any reason for the dismissal and does not say who will be his replacement.

State news agency RIA Novosti reported that Antonov had returned to Moscow last Saturday.

Antonov had said in July that his post was about to end.

The Kremlin had said on Monday that a new Russian ambassador would be appointed to replace Antonov, 69, who had been the head of the Russian embassy in Washington since 2017, during a time when relations between Moscow and Washington were strained. significantly worsened.

When asked if Antonov's departure signaled that Moscow's relations with Washington were deteriorating, Peskov replied, "no, of course an ambassador will be appointed in due course," Reuters reported.

Born in the Siberian city of Omsk, Antonov specialized in nuclear, chemical and biological weapons control. He served in the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 2004, he was appointed director of the department for security and disarmament before being appointed deputy minister of defense between 2011 and 2016. Prior to his role as ambassador to the US he served as deputy secretary of state in December 2016.

Antonov was at the center of a diplomatic firestorm after US President Joe Biden called Putin a "murderer" and was summoned to Moscow on March 17, 2021. He returned to Washington, DC after the Russia-US summit later that year.

Just days before the start of the war in Ukraine, he denied that Russia was planning an all-out invasion. A year after the war began, he said the US government was trying to "feed the Ukrainian crisis" with accusations that Moscow was committing crimes against humanity.

In June 2024, he told Newsweek that there was a need for "a new security architecture" in the global system. He also claimed that Russia's interests have been "blatantly ignored, as there seemed to be no alternative to the dominance of the United States and its immediate satellites."


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