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Alexandr Grushko, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, at an interview with TASS on May 13 denounced European countries for their policy of hostility.

He said that France, the UK and Germany do not want to stop the Ukrainian dispute but maintain the line of protracting the dispute, adding that their purposes are Russia’s defeat in the war, international isolation, economic suffocation and system change. 

Despite the complete failure in all these, they have not yet given up their attempt to attain the goals, he said.

Earlier on May 12, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitri Peskov at a press conference rejected the new threat of sanctions against Russia by the European Union, saying that ultimatum-style language does not work in the dialogue with Moscow and they should not talk to it in that way.

He also accused the Polish authorities of taking hostile and unfriendly measures like closing down the Russian consulate general in Cracow.