“We would like to once again ask the official representatives of the US administration: do not scare us with sanctions, new sanctions, updated sanctions as a kind of punishment for Russian economic operators for cooperation with Venezuela. We are well aware that there is nothing new in such approaches, ”said Zakharova.
According to her, sanctions are absolutely illegitimate and are only an instrument of unfair competition in the interests of obtaining unilateral advantages.
At the end of July, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that the Russian side, in the case of new US sanctions against Moscow, because of the support of Venezuela, would not abandon its principled approaches.