A Russian diplomat to the United Nations in Geneva said he had handed in his resignation before sending a scathing letter to foreign colleagues inveighing against the 'aggressive war unleashed' by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Ukraine. Boris Bondarev, 41, confirmed his resignation in a letter posted on his Facebook page.
'For 20 years of my diplomatic career, I have seen different turns of our foreign policy, but never have I been so ashamed of my country as on 24 February of this year,' he wrote, alluding to the date of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
* ‘Warmongering, lies and hatred’: Russian diplomat in Geneva resigns over Ukraine invasion
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