Russia is ready for a dialogue with the United States, but only on an equal and mutual basis, to which Washington shows no willingness, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zajárova said on Saturday.
“We do not avoid dialogue and we are ready to negotiate, but strictly on an equal footing, but the signs in Washington cannot be seen even with a magnifying glass,” he specified.
According to Zakharova, “in the face of hypocritical arguments about the need to maintain a diplomatic presence,” the United States is doing everything it can to further complicate the work of Russian authorities.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry again urged Washington to consider the consequences.
Zakharova provided a timeline of the White House’s aggressive actions against the Russian diplomatic presence and explained that US officials at various levels are trying to absolve themselves of responsibility for the state of relations between Moscow and Washington.
“Apparently it’s considered normal in Washington to expel Russian diplomats on fictitious grounds, take and in short steal someone else’s property, close our diplomatic missions and then hypocritically wonder why the ‘brave Russians’ are paying the same currency, damaging the US diplomatic missions in Russia.
Zakharova stressed that it was time for Washington to learn that every hostile step would be followed by a reaction, which in any case would be painful.
In this regard, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed on Friday that the West does not hide that its current political goals in its efforts to create a “unipolar world” are “to stall and destroy the Russian economy and Russia as a whole”. “.
He also pointed out that his intimidation, accompanied by an unprecedented wave of sanctions, revealed that the values this bloc “constantly preaches,” such as freedom of expression, the market economy and the presumption of innocence, “are not worth anything.”
The head of Russian diplomacy stressed that “total war” is a term “that was used by Hitler’s Germany” and “is now used by many European politicians when talking about what they want to do with the Russian Federation”.