Daily Mail, in a piece entitled “Russian pranksters release clip of hoax video call showing David Cameron discussing dinner with Trump, Kyiv’s NATO bid and a possible Labour victory – believing he was talking to a former Ukraine president”, said: “A pair of notorious Russian pranksters… ‘Vovan and Lexus’ have posted a screen recording of the 15-minute-long conversation which sees Lord Cameron touch on topics from Ukraine’s bid for NATOmembership and the state of the West’s ongoing support for Kyiv to private dinners with Donald Trump and a possible Labour victory in the upcoming election…

The call also touched on the broader geopolitical ramifications of Russian aggression in Ukraine, with Lord Cameron revealing that during a recent trip to Kazakhstan, officials expressed concern that the Kremlin could seek to seize some territory there too.

‘I was recently in all the ‘stans, and Kazakhstan are convinced that Putin wants a slice of the north of Kazakhstan’ he said.

He also relayed a conversation with the Kazakh foreign minister, who allegedly said that ‘Ukrainians are dying for Kazakhstan. They are putting their lives at risk to hold back Russia. And that benefits us’”.

That story has seemingly got Kazakhstan’s MFA into a tricky situation. Some Kazakh media tried to get an official comment from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, on the matter. But, as reported in the report, their attempts to contact the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Aibek Smadiyarov, were unsuccessful – no response was forthcoming.

Meanwhile, the Russian RIA Novosti news agency quotes the........

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