Views of MoscowMOSCOW, Mar 26A painful reaction for the United States will certainly follow every hostile step taken by Washington, says Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in a comment. Zakharova stressed that recently American representatives at various levels have been trying to absolve themselves of responsibility for the state of Russian-American relations that is close to a complete rupture. «They habitually point their arrows at Russia, which is accused of 'escalation' on the grounds that we do not miss blows and always respond to hostile attacks in a mirror or asymmetrical manner,» she said. , take away someone else's property, and simply put, steal it, close our diplomatic missions, and then hypocritically wonder why the «impudent Russians» pay in the same coin, hurting American diplomatic missions in Russia, «added Zakharova. Previously, she commented on the statement of the US ambassador in Moscow, John Sullivan, who said that «Russians and Americans will resume normal relations.» He noted that this will happen «not this year, maybe not next, but it will happen.» Sullivan said he hoped to live to see it. Zakharova noted that «it's a pity he didn't tell that it was his country that destroyed the ties between our peoples».The Bundestag pointed to the duplicity of the minister because of the position on Russian gasWestern countries imposed multiple sanctions in response to the special operation of the Russian Federation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. A number of companies announced their withdrawal from the Russian market and the closure of production facilities in the country. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that Western companies that refuse to work with Russia did so under enormous pressure, but Russia will solve all the problems with the economy that the West creates for it. 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. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. NATO on Russia and Ukraine
