“At first we were not given the opportunity to build gas pipelines to Europe.
Who did it?
The United States, which forbade, in particular, Germany to build a gas pipeline, saying that Europe should not receive Russian gas, ”RIA Novosti quotes her.
According to the diplomat, another striking example was the negotiations on facilitating the visa regime, which have been ongoing for 20 years.
“It was the EU that practically interrupted these negotiations and facilitated the visa regime for Moldova without explaining anything to us,” Zakharova said.
She also confirmed that a number of European countries closed their airspace to the aircraft of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.