“Ties Nearing Point Of No Return”: Russia Slams “Impotence” Of West

Moscow:

A Russian international ministry spokeswoman mentioned Friday Western sanctions towards the nation’s president and high diplomat over its invasion of Ukraine confirmed Western “impotency” and warned relations have been nearing a “level of no return.”

In a bristling speech on Russian tv, international ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned the choice by the US and European nations to slap sanctions on President Vladimir Putin and International Minister Sergei Lavrov have been “an illustration of the whole impotency of the international coverage” of the West.

She additionally warned that Russia’s relations with the West have been nearing a harmful level.

“It wasn’t our alternative. We wished dialogue, however the Anglo-Saxons closed these choices one after the other and we started performing in another way,” Zakharova mentioned on a tv present on Russia’s Channel One shortly earlier than midnight.

“It is not due to threats, however the factor is that we’ve reached the road after which the purpose of no return begins,” Zakharova mentioned.

Ukrainian forces have been mounting a fierce resistance to invading Russian troops on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital on the second day of the Kremlin’s large-scale invasion of its neighbour, which has seen dozens killed and a number of other hundred wounded.

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