
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticized Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal for claiming the EU will use all resources to destroy Russian oil refineries, questioning his authority to speak for the EU and accusing Estonian officials of dragging Europe into confrontation.
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Kristen Michal served as Estonia's climate minister (2023-2024), economy and infrastructure minister (2015-2016), and justice minister (2011-2012) before becoming prime minister. Kaja Kallas is Estonia's former prime minister and current EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs.
MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. Scoundrels like Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal are dragging the European Union into a quagmire of confrontation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Earlier, Michal claimed that "the EU will throw all its resources into ensuring that Ukraine can turn Russian oil refineries into ruins."
Zakharova said reminded "the number of ‘competencies’ of this destroyer." In 2023-2024, Michal was Estonia’s climate minister, in 2015-2016 he was the economy and infrastructure minister, and in 2011-2012 he was the justice minister.
"The minister of all things in a year. Who gave him the right now to speak on behalf of the entire European Union?" the diplomat asked.
"The whole EU is wondering: on whose behalf is [head of the European diplomacy] Kaja Kallas, whom no one empowered to make all these utterly foolish statements, is speaking. Now another Estonian ‘sprinter’ has appeared. It is in this simple way that such scoundrels drag Europe into the abyss of confrontation."
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