Russian ambassadors called senseless sanctions imposed by the US and Canada

Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov called thoughtless new US sanctions against a number of Russian citizens and companies. His words are given in the TELEGRAM channel of the Russian diplomatic mission.

“They want to make us suffer again. Does anyone really think that in this way it is possible to achieve a refusal of our country from an independent policy, to push us off the chosen path to building a multipolar world based on the principle of indivisible security, on international law and the UN Charter?” Antonov said.

He noted that Washington and its allies are not succeeding with sanctions "strangling", since RUSSIA "learned to live under economic and political pressure." By continuing to impose sanctions, the United States, according to the diplomat, "purposefully destroys" bilateral dialogue and international relations.

Commenting on the introduction of new sanctions by CANADA, the Russian ambassador to Ottawa, Oleg Stepanov, called them senseless. “They [sanctions] have never worked against Russia, they cannot affect our sovereign foreign policy or domestic affairs,” he wrote on his Twitter.

On February 24, the United States imposed sanctions against 48 heads of Russian regions and nine ministers, the wife of the former commander of the joint group of forces in Ukraine, Sergei Surovikin, Anna, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, TV presenter Olga Skabeeva, and others. In addition, restrictive measures affected 11 Russian banks, and as well as aluminum imports, EXPORT restrictions were imposed on MegaFon, the Skolkovo innovation center.

Canada on the same day imposed sanctions against 129 Russians. Among them were: the first woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, hockey player Vladislav Tretiak, relatives of the deputy chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev (his wife Svetlana and son Ilya) and the first deputy HEAD of the presidential administration Sergei Kiriyenko.