By George Aluo, with agency report
As expected, Boris Johnson’s resignation as Prime Minister of Britain ‘the best job in the world’ is being celebrated in Russia, while in Ukraine it is nothing but bad news.
Agency reports monitored in Lagos shows that the Kremlin is happy that a hater has lost lost power.
But in Ukraine, President Zelensky is writhing in pains over Johnson’s resignation as British Prime Minister.
BBC.com quoted President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying a man who hates Russia has been disgraced out of office…”Mr Johnson “really does not like us – and we [do not like] him either”.
Peskov added…”we hope more professional people” who could “make decisions through dialogue” would take over in London.
Another Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters Mr Johnson had been “hit by a boomerang launched by himself”, adding that the moral of the story was “do not seek to destroy Russia”.
While Russia is doing “Buga dance” over Johnson, Ukraine struck the opposite tone with Zelensy literarily in tears.
Zelensky thanked Johnson for his support in “the most difficult of times”, according to news agency AFP.
President Volodymyr Zelensky called the prime minister on Thursday after he announced his resignation, during which Kyiv officials says the Ukrainian leader expressed his “sadness” upon hearing the news.
“Not only me, but also all of Ukrainian society which sympathises with you a lot,” he is reported to have said – thanking him for the “decisive action” he has taken to help Ukraine.
The pair developed a close relationship since the start of the war.
An adviser to Mr Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, earlier took to Twitter to thank him for being “the first to arrive in Kyiv, despite missile attacks” and “always being at the forefront of supporting” Ukraine.
