A day after Canada’s NATO delegation mocked Russia by tweeting a map of Ukraine’s borders, NATO’s Russian mission fired back with a map of their own.
As perhaps expected, the maps showed different borders in the eastern Ukrainian region of Crimea, which was annexed to Russia in a vote earlier this year that has been disputed by most Western nations.
Here is Russia’s tweet:
Helping our Canadian colleagues to catch up with contemporary geography of #Europe @CanadaNATO pic.twitter.com/MjzRxpFFfN
— Russians at NATO (@natomission_ru) August 28, 2014
The Russian delegates were responding to Canada at NATO’s tweet that included an illustrated map denoting Ukraine as “Not Russia,” after a military representative said a Russian soldier had “accidentally” entered Ukraine on Wednesday.
Geography can be tough. Here’s a guide for Russian soldiers who keep getting lost & ‘accidentally’ entering #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/RF3H4IXGSp
— Canada at NATO (@CanadaNATO) August 27, 2014
The original tweet from Canada attracted far more attention and praise, it seems, for its direct approach to Russia’s intensifying aggression toward a sovereign Ukraine.
I love that @CanadaNATO has a smart, snarky take on stuff. Perhaps best Canadian Govt voice on the internet #keeeponrockin
— Stephen Saideman (@smsaideman) August 27, 2014
With the situation in eastern Ukraine intensifying each day, the response to Russia at NATO’s tweet took a decidedly angrier tone:
@natomission_ru @CanadaNATO I can steal stuff too. That doesn't make it mine.
— Alex Smithson (@iam_smithers) August 28, 2014
@natomission_ru The world stands united against your brutal expansionism and make you pay for it. Go @CanadaNATO!! #CRIMEA_IS_UKRAINIAN!!
— ConflictReporter (@MiddleEast_BRK) August 28, 2014
@Pickme2be @ArbiterEleg @myroslawabrulak Russia foreign policy play book: do what you want, deny doing it, then ask why no 1 is stopping it.
— WobbleCobble (@ShvenWonk) August 28, 2014
