Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Maria ZakharovaMOSCOW, Mar 22 MFA Spokesperson Maria Zakharova made fun of statements by White House press secretary Jen Psaki about the withdrawal of American companies from Russia. Previously, Psaki said that the US authorities did not ask companies to leave the Russian market, according to her, it was an independent business decision.
Like " Nord Stream — 2" “The pipeline itself decided not to allow gas to pass through itself,” Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel, commenting on the statement of the White House press secretary.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. Western countries imposed sanctions on Russia, some banks were disconnected from the SWIFT system, Visa and MasterCard has stopped servicing Russian bank cards, and a number of global companies have announced their withdrawal from the Russian market.