“These sanctions, similar to hysteria (I would even say, somewhere in agony) were initiated by the West.
The speed with which they were introduced and their length show that they were not composed in one night.
They have been prepared for a long time.
It is unlikely that these sanctions will be lifted,” he said.
According to him, the American side, in non-public conversations, claims that it does not plan to lift restrictions even after the completion of the special operation in Ukraine.
“At least the United States, not publicly, but in contacts with its allies, says that when all this is over, the sanctions will still remain.
This is not about Ukraine, which acts as a tool, a bargaining chip, but about curbing the development of Russia.
It prevents the West from establishing a unipolar world, which Washington proclaimed with the submissive consent of Europe,” Lavrov said.
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that political analysts are currently writing that from the point of view of future prospects, the main loser in this whole story is Europe.
Earlier, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov, commenting on Washington's attempts to accuse Russia of deliberately spreading the food crisis, said that the aggravation of the crisis was due to Western sanctions.