“Attempts to present us as ... a country conducting“ malicious ”activities have long become the hallmark of Russophobes.
Threats against us are groundless and useless, ”Antonov's words are quoted on the Facebook page of the Russian Embassy in Washington.
He explained that the Russian side cannot accept the practice of illegitimate unilateral sanctions.
“Only the UN Security Council has a mandate for this,” the ambassador concluded.
Earlier it became known that the joint statement of the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States on "Nord Stream 2" states, among other things, that "if Russia tries to use energy as a weapon," then the Federal Republic of Germany, in turn, "will insist on effective measures at the European level. , including sanctions, to restrict the possibilities of Russian exports to Europe.