The Kremlin has reprimanded President Macron for violating the protocol by allowing the transmission of the phone call of his last futile attempt to stop President Putin four days before the invasion of Ukraine.
Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, said the inclusion in a nine-minute exchange television documentary broke with the tradition of confidentiality covering private conversations between leaders. “The diplomatic label does not provide for unilateral leaks of these recordings,” Lavrov said.
Maria Zakharova, a Kremlin spokeswoman, complained: “When Macron called the Russian president, the whole conversation was recorded by journalists, who were filming him. This is an example of the strange way they interpret the word diplomacy. “
State news agency Ria Novosti said: “The French have been doing this for a long time.