According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Western countries are seeking to punish Moscow for its independent foreign policy. In an interview with the Croatian newspaper Vecherni List, Lavrov said that the United States and some European countries have recently redoubled their efforts to curb Russia’s development.
“Today we are forced to state that recently Washington and some European capitals have been redoubling their efforts to restrain the development of our country, they want to punish us for an independent foreign policy, for consistently upholding national interests. because Western countries have made it a rule to talk with Russia from the position of the presumption of her guilt in everything, “the Russian minister explained.