{"id":690873,"date":"2026-01-12T10:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690873\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:39:17","slug":"russia-condemns-british-officials-statement-on-abducting-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690873\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia condemns British official&#8217;s statement on &#8216;abducting&#8217; Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0bbb250c4680dc801556f106517aa86e.jpg\"\/>Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova attends a weekly briefing on March 23, 2023. (PHOTO \/ RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY)<\/p>\n<p>MOSCOW &#8211; The Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday rebuked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/624172#British-Defence-Ministry-claims-interception-of-Russian-warship,-tanker-off-UK-coast-2025-11-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>British Defence<\/strong><\/a> Secretary John Healey&#8217;s remarks about &#8220;abducting&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/625912#Russia-says-to-respond-in-kind-if-US-conducts-nuclear-tests-2025-12-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>President Vladimir Putin<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Zakharova, the ministry&#8217;s spokesperson, called the remarks &#8220;the obscene fantasies of British deviants&#8221; during an appearance on the Russian TV channel TV Tsentr.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Healey said he would &#8220;take Putin into custody and hold him accountable for war crimes&#8221; when asked by Ukrainian media which world leader he would like to abduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova attends a weekly briefing on March 23, 2023. (PHOTO \/ RUSSIAN FOREIGN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[208697,41238,332,25054,208696],"class_list":{"0":"post-690873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-british-defence-secretary","9":"tag-president-vladimir-putin","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-russia-ukraine-crisis","12":"tag-uk-russia-relationship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115881703447899388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}