Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that the European Union declared the Russian Federation an aggressor absolutely illegitimately and without any convincing grounds. He said that his country would not leave unanswered the sanctions imposed after the annexation of Crimea.
“If we talk about relations between Russia and the European Union, then the entire architecture of these relations, which was unprecedentedly developed in its time, was destroyed by Brussels in connection with the events in Ukraine, in Crimea, which our Western colleagues did not like that we should have taken offense at them, have claims against them for the fact that they, contrary to their obligations, supported and, in fact, encouraged an anti-constitutional coup d'etat in Ukraine”,- he said.
Lavrov said that the series of sanctions launched by the members of the European Union and other Western countries, including the United States, continues, but the Russian Federation will not leave such attacks unanswered.
“We will not leave unanswered this kind of attacks against Russia, representatives of the Russian leadership, parliamentarians, our companies, which, according to the European Union, are only guilty of being registered in a country that the European Union decided to declare an aggressor without any convincing grounds and absolutely illegitimately. This manner of resorting to unilateral restrictions bypassing the UN Security Council is becoming contagious. The United States introduced this fashion, and the European Union, in my opinion, willingly picked it up”,- he added.