Russia yesterday lashed out at Prince Charles for comparing Vladimir Putin to Hitler, publicly questioning his fitness to be king.

As controversy continued to rage around the world, Russia's foreign ministry said his remarks were 'unacceptable, outrageous and dishonourable' and 'not worthy of a future British monarch'.

Russian diplomats insisted on meeting counterparts in London, where they are understood to have demanded an official explanation.

But the frosty 40-minute talks at the Foreign Office in London ended without agreement when British officials flatly refused to discuss Charles's words – and instead attacked Russia for seeking to destabilise eastern Ukraine.

'There was not a meeting of minds,' said one senior Whitehall source. As the diplomatic crisis escalated:

Pro-Putin media in Russia linked the Royal Family to the Nazis in retaliation for Charles's attack.

The Russian leader's biographer condemned the prince's remarks, insisting he had no 'plans for world domination as Hitler openly did'.

Charles flew back to Britain at the end of his tour of Canada, where he made his comments.

The Foreign Office said it had told Russian diplomats to stop interfering in Ukraine's presidential elections taking place on Sunday.

A Russian newspaper close to the regime attacked Charles as 'a clearly defined eccentric' whose remarks were in keeping with his 'royal foolishness'.

The Daily Mail revealed earlier this week the prince's extraordinary remarks as he met Second World War veterans and their families on his Canada visit.

'And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler,' he told Marianne Ferguson, a museum volunteer who fled to Canada with her Jewish family when she was 13 and lost relatives in the Holocaust.

His remarks were seen as a reference to Putin's seizure of Crimea – the first annexation by a major power in Europe since the end of the Second World War in 1945.

Russia is now accused of sending undercover military forces into the Black Sea and other areas of eastern Ukraine with large ethnic Russian populations, using the pretext of protecting the Russian minority to take over more Ukrainian territory.

Yesterday Sian MacLeod, a Foreign Office director covering Eastern Europe, met Russian deputy ambassador Alexander Kramarenko at his request to discuss Charles's attack.

The Whitehall source said: 'The Russians were not happy and said they wanted to know what was going on. It is fair to say they were surprised by our blanket refusal to engage with the subject of the private conversations of the heir to the throne.

'Instead we said we would rather talk about a country one part of which they have annexed and another part of which they are trying to destabilise.'

Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich questioned whether Charles was fit to be king after his broadside comparing Putin and Hitler.

'If these words were really said, then undoubtedly they are not worthy of a future British monarch,' he said. 'We have requested an official explanation from British authorities over the statements.

'We view the use of the Western Press by members of the British Royal Family to spread the propaganda campaign against Russia on a pressing issue – that is, the situation in Ukraine – as unacceptable, outrageous and low.'

Another senior diplomatic official in Moscow, Maria Zakharova, said sarcastically: 'Prince Charles and Prince Harry have a special kind of relations with Nazism, I must say.'

That was apparently a reference to the sympathies of some members of the Windsor family with Hitler in the 1930s and Harry's appearance at a fancy dress party in a German uniform.

Meanwhile, the Russian embassy in London denounced the 'outrageous remarks made by Prince Charles in Canada'.

Russian officials pointed out that the Soviets lost 26million defeating the Nazis, with Churchill acknowledging it was the Russians 'who tore the guts out of the German army'.

A commentary in newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets said Charles was considered by the British to be 'a clearly defined eccentric' who talked to trees and once dismissed senior Chinese leaders as 'awful old waxworks'.

Privately, Charles has expressed his frustration that his trip has been dominated by a remark that was not, to his mind, a political statement but an expression of sympathy.

'The prince isn't angry per se, just very, very frustrated that something which was in no way a political pronouncement on his behalf has overshadowed everything the tour was trying to achieve,' said a royal source.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: 'People and governments across the world strongly condemn Russia's actions in Ukraine including the illegal annexation of Crimea, and the provoking of instability on the territory of a sovereign neighbour.'

Yesterday, 14 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a hail of mortar shells fired by pro-Russian forces.?

【新聞快訊】

據(jù)英國《每日郵報(bào)》5月22日報(bào)道，英國王儲查爾斯近日訪問加拿大時(shí)將俄羅斯總統(tǒng)普京比作希特勒，對此俄羅斯外交部21日予以猛烈抨擊，稱查爾斯的言論“離譜、低級、令人無法接受”，“他不配當(dāng)英國國王?！?/p>

此前，查爾斯王子在私下談話中告訴一位在納粹大屠殺中失去親人的女士，“普京目前在烏克蘭的作為，猶如二戰(zhàn)期間的希特勒?！贝朔u論是針對普京占取克里米亞。

俄羅斯外交官要求與英國外交部會面并對此事作出解釋，但在40分鐘的會談中，英國官員拒絕對查爾斯王子的言論作出評價(jià)，并指責(zé)俄羅斯破壞烏克蘭穩(wěn)定。據(jù)英國政府人員透露：“會議未達(dá)成一致?！边@件外交風(fēng)波正在不斷升級：

俄羅斯親普京媒體因?qū)Σ闋査沟难哉摬粷M而把英國王室比作納粹組織。

普京傳記作者譴責(zé)查爾斯王子的言論，并堅(jiān)稱普京“不像希特勒那樣計(jì)劃統(tǒng)治世界。”

查爾斯結(jié)束對加拿大的訪問后飛回英國。

英國外交部稱已警告俄羅斯停止干預(yù)烏克蘭25日即將舉行的總統(tǒng)大選。

一份親俄政府的報(bào)紙攻擊查爾斯為“怪人一枚”，并稱他的言論與他的“皇室愚蠢”相一致。

俄羅斯外交部發(fā)言人盧卡舍維奇表示：“如果這些話是真的，那么毫無疑問，他未來不配當(dāng)英國國王?！?/p>

對此，查爾斯王子私下表示，他的此番言論僅僅是為了表達(dá)同情，并非政治言論，自己也沒想到此次訪問完全被這場風(fēng)波所主導(dǎo)，這令他非常沮喪。