Russian ambassador hits back at Fine Gael senator

Ray Butler had written to the Russian embassy over Russia’s support for Syrian president Bashar Al Assad

The Kremlin in Moscow Pic: Getty

The Russian ambassador to Ireland has rapped a Fine Gael senator on the knuckles for what he called his “one-sided” comments on Syria.

Senator Ray Butler had written to the Russian embassy complaining about Russia’s military support for Syrian president Bashar Al Assad in the country’s bloody civil war.

But Russia’s ambassador Maksim Peshkov told Butler that his knowledge of what was going on in Syria and the city of Aleppo was far ...