Ukraine has criticised Russia for serving Chicken Kiev at a UN Security Council dinner.
“The moral decay of Russian diplomacy is glaring,” said Sergiy Kyslytsya, the Ukrainian ambassador to the UN as he shared an image of the menu which highlighted: “chicken Kiev served with potato paille”.
Mr Kyslytsya criticised diplomats for attending the dinner, which he described as being funded with “blood money”.
Russia held the dinner to celebrate assuming the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council on July 1.
The luncheon took place directly after the UN Security Council convened to discuss a Russian missile strike that hit a children’s hospital in Kyiv, killing two people and injuring 32 others.
The origin of Chicken Kiev is disputed. Some state it was invented in Moscow in a restaurant called ‘Kiev’, while Ukraine maintains that it adapted it from a French dish.
The dish became popular in Britain after Marks and Spencer introduced the cutlet as the UK’s first ready meal in 1979.
Some supermarkets, including Marks and Spencer, changed its spelling to ‘Chicken Kyiv’ in a show of solidarity after the Russian invasion.
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