Russia Will Respond To Any New Western Sanctions - Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Moscow will not leave any new Western anti-Russia sanctions unanswered, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday

YEREVAN (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th May, 2021) Moscow will not leave any new Western anti-Russia sanctions unanswered, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday.

"This series of sanctions launched by members of the European Union and other Western countries including the United States, of course, continues. We will not leave this kind of attacks against Russia � against representatives of the Russian leadership, parliamentarians of the Russian Federation, our companies, which are guilty of only being registered in a country that the European Union decided to declare an aggressor, without any valid grounds and absolutely illegitimate," the minister said at a press conference after talks with his Armenian counterpart, Ara Aivazian.

Lavrov added that the European Union's threats of new sanctions and claims of illegitimacy of possible Russian countermeasures showed that Brussels was obsessed with impunity and it was a road to nowhere.

"The fact that the European Union has declared that out actions lack legitimacy and international legal justification means only one thing � that the European Union believes that it can do anything. And when the European Union begins to threaten us with new sanctions, I start to think that in addition to this feeling of permissiveness and infallibility, the EU is beginning to be overwhelmed by another mania � I mean complete impunity," Lavrov said.

"This is a dead end road ... Aggressive Russophobic lobby in the EU is doing its job... We cannot leave this hostility unanswered," the minister added.