The expansion of the EU sanctions list looks especially absurd against the background of the February 12 Minsk agreements concluded with the participation of the leaders of the leading EU member states, the Russian Foreign Ministry said today.
"We have the impression that Brussels and EU member states’ capitals either cannot control the sanctions’ spiral any longer or are in a hurry to convince the public that the EU sanctions have made Russia’s attitude more flexible," the Ministry stressed.
"One thing is clear - such decisions will be met with an appropriate response, they defy common sense and are ruining the emerging opportunity to find a solution to the internal Ukrainian conflict," Tass cited the Foreign Ministry.
The European Union has once again spared itself the trouble of critically and without bias analysing the real causes of the escalation of the situation in the southeast of Ukraine and has again preferred to do the bidding of Kiev’s ‘party of war’, the Ministry believes.
