“After the events in Ukraine since 2013, the sanctions that the EU and the US impose on Russia have acquired a bad inertia.

There is no causal relationship between what is happening in Ukraine or around it, and those sanctions that are introduced, in our opinion, pointlessly, ”RIA Novosti quotes Razov.

Earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged to take into account the consequences for the West in the event of sanctions against Russia.

Russian Permanent Representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov in an interview with the Izvestiya newspaper noted that the politicization of the Ukrainian issue is contrary to the economic interests of Russia and the European Union.