Russia FM: Western sanctions lack ‘all common sense’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday denounced Western sanctions on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday denounced Western sanctions on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine, saying they lacked "all common sense."
"We reject sanctions in any form, in particular those sanctions adopted by the United States and the European Union against all common sense regarding the events in Ukraine," he said at a meeting here with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez.
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