Russian MFA: some EU politicians are interested in demonizing Moscow

“We assess the assessments of the human rights situation in Russia with a protruding story about the Ukrainian political prisoners as biased and aimed at playing that part of the political forces in the EU that are interested in further demonizing our country and maintaining the current abnormal state of Russia-EU relations,” message on the MFA website.

So in the diplomatic department they commented on the statement of the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianidis, made on behalf of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

Earlier, a member of the European Commission, Christ Stylianidis, said that the EU calls on Russia for the unconditional release of Ukrainian sailors detained after the incident in the Kerch Strait in the autumn of 2018.