Architectural Ensemble of the Moscow KremlinKIEV, February 9Western countries should not impose preventive sanctions on Russia, since the main stake is now being placed on a diplomatic resolution of the conflict in Ukraine and avoiding a military scenario, said Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez. kind of assumption,» he said at a press conference in Kiev following talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba, answering a Ukrainian journalist's question about the possibility of imposing sanctions as a preventive measure, «before a military attack.»
Austria called the condition for imposing new sanctions against Russia «I think that all efforts — and my visit here is also part of it — should be aimed at de-escalation and defusing tensions through dialogue so that Ukraine can live peacefully in relation to its borders and guarantee its sovereignty. I don't see why it is impossible. No one from this side of Europe is preparing for war, and therefore we should not show that this scenario is inevitable, because it is not. Today, priority is given to diplomacy,» he added. Plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine is vehemently denied in Moscow and constantly stated that no one is in danger, and all such statements are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the US and NATO information hysteria over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. consequences of anti-Russian sanctions for the West
