Medvedev on Meloni in Kiev, a 'theatrical visit' - last hour. Medvedev's statements, apparently referring to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's visit to Kiev, were posted by him on his Telegram channel and taken up by Tass.

"Once again licking the dirty boots of the American master in a state of acute servile exaltation", he said in a statement. "Theatrical visits of Western leaders to Kiev" on the anniversary of the start of the conflict with the aim of "distracting their electorate from the accumulated problems and also licking...