Russian Embassy loses its land, its cool and all sense of irony

The Russians are exceedingly unhappy. Australia has stolen back what the Russians planned was to be a distant corner of their motherland, carved out of prized territory near Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. Furthermore, the Australian government retrieved the parcel of land legally, however much the Kremlin might call it a “hostile” action inflamed by “Russophobic hysteria”, a term used by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at the height of the long and peculiar stand-off. Could it be that the Russians, whose president and military are trying with maximum prejudice to illegally steal a whole country known as Ukraine, have also misplaced the word “irony” from their language?