Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyKYIV, Feb 14 What sanctions will be applied by Western partners to the Russian Federation in the event of an escalation, none of the leaders with whom he spoke gave a specific answer. p>"As for the sanctions policy, we not only raised this issue with Mr. Scholz. I don’t have an answer to the question of what sanctions will be applied in the event of an escalation against the Russian Federation… Trust me, I asked specific leaders many times in recent months, I didn’t receive it myself,” Zelensky said at a briefing on results of the meeting.
The West accuses the Russian Federation of plans to allegedly escalate the situation around Ukraine. Moscow categorically denies this and constantly says that no one is threatened, 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 up Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. >West threatens Russia with «tough measures», but for some reason punishes Ukraine