
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the EU's confrontation with Moscow will only aggravate the problems of unification, following the path imposed by the United States.
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Russian officials regularly criticize the policies of the European Union against the backdrop of the sanctions confrontation.
A confrontation between the European Union (EU) and Russia will only worsen its own problems, as well as those of its member states. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, stated this during a briefing, a Lenta.ru correspondent reports.
“The European Union, first under pressure from the United States, then due to this inertia, took the path to confrontation with our country. And this path will not allow him to solve, and will never allow him to solve his pressing issues. Why? Because this path will only aggravate the problems that Europe has,” the diplomat noted.
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