Maria Zakharova, an official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, commented on this demand in her Telegram channel as follows:
“Great Britain asked France to take back migrants who crossed the English Channel. For the “summit of democracies”, probably. So that no one has any doubts about how the current “leaders of the democratic world” relate to the refugee status, which their predecessors developed and approved. I think during the meeting there will be a substantive exchange of experience in the implementation of human rights in practice: how Poland did not allow migrants to Germany, how Britain sent refugees to France, how the EU did not see the use of special equipment against children and women by the Polish security forces, etc”.