“I would only add that Secretary of State Pompeo met with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Saturday in Munich, and they discussed this. And the ambassador in Moscow Sullivan yesterday (on Monday. - RT) met with Finance Minister Siluanov to discuss this, ”he said.
Earlier, the United States announced the imposition of sanctions against Vice President for Refining, Petrochemicals, Commerce and Logistics of Rosneft Didier Kasimiro.
The Venezuelan sanctions list also included the Rosneft Trading SA structural unit, whose chairman of the board is Kashimiro.
In the fall of 2019, Rosneft announced that they were an investor in the oil and gas sector of Venezuela and were them long before the United States imposed sanctions on Caracas.