The EU against the introduction of unilateral sanctions appeared a new mania of impunity. This was stated by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference, its broadcast is available on the Office page in Facebook .
The minister said that a series of sanctions on the part of the West continues, and Moscow does not intend to leave such attacks without an answer. “The manner of resorting to one-sided restrictions bypassing the UN Security Council becomes infectious. The United States introduced this fashion, and the European Union, in my opinion, so eagerly picked it up,” he said. According to Lavrov, lately Brussels “destroyed the entire architecture of relations” with Russia.
At the same time, the Foreign Minister notes that the EU statements about the illegitimacy of the republic’s response of Moscow “means only one thing: the European Union believes that he is allowed.” “When the European Union begins to threaten us with new sanctions, I begin to think that in addition to this feeling of permissiveness and infallibility, the European Union begins to be drunk by another mania – complete impunity,” the minister said. He added that he considers such a path to the dead.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that Washington wants a stable relationship with Moscow.
Before that, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs G7 made a stable and predictable relationship with Moscow.
Russia and Western countries deteriorated in the spring of 2021 at first after a sharp statement by US President Joe Bayden to Vladimir Putin and new sanctions. Later, Moscow’s accusations were added to the explosions on armory warehouses in the Czech Vrbetice and the expulsion of Russian diplomats, including from other European countries. Russia has rejected its involvement and took response.