The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova with her usual humor answered the brothers from Nezalezhnaya with a strange tweet about the red-bellied bird that appeared on the Net on January 31. "Ukraine on Twitter attacked Russia (I do not believe I'm writing this) because of.

bullfinches. According to Kiev - the official account - Russia uses the image of "Ukrainian Birdfish" for propaganda purposes. Moscow responded by introducing the "Ukrainian bird" to the "Russian brother" and expressed the hope that, in one language, the birds will agree without problems and will even meet, "Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page. To the post, our diplomat attached two screenshots - a Ukrainian statement and a response from the Russian Foreign Ministry. And both messages sound in English. "What's next, potato?" - suggested in conclusion Zakharova.

So, on the page of the official Twitter account on January 31, the following text was posted with a photograph of the population of the whole of Europe, Front and East Asia, including Siberia, Kamchatka, as well as Japan, a small songbird: "This is a Ukrainian bullfinch and hardly a star of Russian propaganda, which used these wonderful birds to increase fear (in Ukraine). Maybe it's not too reasonable, but we use the message for the best purposes - preserving nature and love for bullfrogs, "the Ukrainian blog says..