Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman accuses the West of planning to contain Moscow
The political information campaign of Western countries is aimed at containing the Russian Federation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
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| Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova |
Maria Zakharova stressed that "for many years, the Russian Federation has been proposing to its EU partners emerging issues that need to be resolved using existing diplomatic methods" through negotiations and consultations.
"But every year there is a growing tendency to deliberately distort all issues, both fact and fiction. Any attempt by us to turn this into a constructive dialogue is blocked by the EU."
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry said that all of Russia's actions in imposing sanctions against eight EU officials were just "retaliatory measures against the completely unfriendly and sometimes hostile actions that we see from the Western side".
Earlier, Moscow announced that eight citizens of EU countries and representatives of official EU bodies were denied entry to Russia. The blacklist published on Friday (April 30) includes the head of the European Parliament David Sassoli, among others. It should be emphasized that this measure was taken in response to steps taken against six Russian citizens who were banned from entering the territory of the European Union.
