MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. Vladimir Zelensky essentially flipped the bird to US President-elect Donald Trump by insulting Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev stated.

"The filthiest Banderite scum tried to appear tough through public name-calling. I can assure you that it wasn’t because he lost his nerve after what the Russian head of state said about a potential duel between the Oreshnik missile system and Western-made missile defenses," he wrote on Telegram. "These insults represent the bird <...> that the expired junkie louse flipped… to Trump," Medvedev concluded.

According to him, this was the way for the Kiev regime to reject Trump’s initiative to end the conflict. "Like, take this! There will be no talks with Russia because such a relationship makes negotiations impossible, and you will continue to give us money and weapons," Medvedev remarked.

He emphasized that "the president of a major country should be extremely polite and amiable." The Russian Security Council deputy chairman observed that President Putin had given a brilliant example of such behavior at his Q&A session, radiating confidence and calm amid attempts to taunt him.

During his annual combined press conference and Q&A session, the Russian president challenged all the Western experts who questioned the capability of Russia’s newest Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile system. Putin suggested that the West choose a target in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev or any other location, amass missile defenses there, and check if it’s possible to intercept a hypersonic missile like that. In response, Zelensky burst into a torrent of abuse against the Russian president.