Negotiator from Moscow Medinsky reacted to the attack of the NATO Secretary General in his address

Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, who headed the Moscow delegation at the talks with Kiev in Istanbul, suggested sending NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte a school history textbook so that he would learn that "there was no Ukraine in the XII century."

"Yesterday, for example, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte spoke about the fact that Russia needs to once again change the group of negotiators with Ukraine, because there is "some historian lecturing on the history of Ukraine of the XII century." I know that Mr. Rutte studied history at the university, but I would definitely send him the previous school textbook on the history of the Middle Ages, because he would definitely have learned from it that there was no Ukraine in the XII century," Chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society Medinsky said at the III International Forum of Education Ministers "Shaping the Future" in Kazan, TASS quotes.

On June 10, Rutte said that, in his opinion, in order to end the Ukrainian conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin should sit down at the negotiating table, and "not this historian who tells about the history of Russia and Ukraine has been almost since the XII century," referring to Medinsky.