After the US passed a new package of sanctions against Russia, Washington is facing violent accusations. The punitive measures were chaotic and illogical, Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, criticized on Friday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had previously praised the steps as “very strong”.
The aim of the new “frontal attack” by the US is to damage the Russian economy, break the country’s internal unity and also hit its citizens, Antonov continued. But the damage was greater for Western countries than for Russia itself, he said.
The US has imposed new punitive measures on dozens of people, companies and entities supporting Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. The sanctions are aimed, among other things, at weakening the Russian energy and raw materials sector.
Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov:
However, Zelenskiy welcomed the new package of measures. Significant parts of the aggressor’s economy are now subject to punitive measures. “The power of sanctions is the power of the world,” Zelensky said in his video message broadcast in Kiev on Thursday evening. Moscow must be prevented from circumventing the sanctions:
Russian presidential elections in March
Before the presidential elections in March, Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, expects a “further increase in sanctions pressure.” Leader Vladimir Putin, who has been waging war against Ukraine for more than 20 months, is expected to run for election again. So far, the Russian economy has been able to withstand the pressure of Western sanctions, Antonov said. But the West’s options have been exhausted. “The White House’s steps in this direction are chaotic, illogical and inexplicable by common sense,” Antonov said.
Cutting the last ties with resource power Russia, with its rich natural resources, will not help the global economy get out of its “pathetic situation”, the diplomat said.
Measures are intended to stop war
The EU and the US have imposed extensive sanctions on Russia to stop Putin’s war against Ukraine. Moscow’s power apparatus repeatedly emphasized that it would not let this deter it from its war goals. The country wants to fully control the partially occupied Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson and retain the annexed Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.
Source: Krone
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