Russian Ambassador to the USA Anatoly Antonov. Archival photo WASHINGTON, Jan 13 Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov called the draft of «crippling» anti-Russian sanctions developed by American lawmakers «provocative and hopeless» and rejected plans to invade Ukraine attributed to Russia as «a figment of the sick imagination» of local Russophobes. painful sanctions against key sectors of the Russian economy, the state debt and top officials of the state in the event of an escalation of the situation around Ukraine. «Calls on the Capitol for the introduction of» crippling «anti-Russian restrictions, as well as personal sanctions against the top leadership of the Russian Federation are provocative and unpromising. «- said the ambassador. He reiterated that Russia has» no aggressive intentions towards Ukraine. » psychotic disorder, «Antonov said. 
«Without Russia, this is doomed to failure.» How the talks with NATO ended «One gets the impression that American politicians launched the myth of the» imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine «through the press and are now overcoming their own phobias. negotiations on European security, «he added. The ambassador said that such pressure looks like a manifestation of the US's inability to reasonably defend its point of view at the negotiating table. He recommended that American lawmakers start «building a bipartisan consensus on America's withdrawal from the deepest economic and political crisis,» refusing to threaten Russia. «We are against confrontation. Our choice is to build equal pragmatic relations between Russia and the United States. It is time for politicians in Washington to refuse Such a strategy will not benefit the American people. It will lose international security, which needs wise and thoughtful actions, «Antonov said. 
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