Кирилл Логвинов

⚡️Comment by the Russian Permanent Mission to the EU on the Tenth Package of Anti-Russian Sanctions Adopted by the European Union⚡️ 🔹The latest #EU restrictive measures against #Russia, like all previous ones, are illegitimate. 🔹For the first time, the EU sanctions "package" has included a prohibition on the transit of certain goods via the territory of the Russian Federation. Such actions are detrimental not so much to Russia as to international trade at large. 🔹Brussels is not only infringing on the rights of the Russian media representatives, but also on those of its own citizens. ❗️The tenth "package" will certainly not be left without a response. Read in full🔗https://bit.ly/3IWjUIW

🎙️ Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the Russian Mission to the EU Kirill Logvinov commented to TASS news agency on some aspects of Russian foreign policy on the EU track, 19 December 2022. ➡️bit.ly/3VeA6rY 💬 "We see what is happening not as a local conflict, but as a hybrid war unleashed by the West on #Russia in the political, economic, humanitarian and information areas," he said. "If we talk about agreements, the West, including the EU and its member states, had a chance to reach an agreement, to prevent the development of the situation according to the current scenario. They didn’t use it, and it was in a defiantly dismissive manner in relation to the interests of Russia, and indeed of the whole of Europe." 🔹 Point of no return According to Logvinov, Brussels is trying to represent the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine as a "point of no return" in relations with Russia. 💬 "That’s done solely in order not to mention such episodes as, for example, the outright blackmail of the then President of Ukraine [Viktor Yanukovych] by the EU and its member states on the eve of the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius in November 2013 or the de facto support of Kiev in its sabotage of the Minsk agreements, which lasted for many years," he said. 🔹 Redistribution of power The envoy said Brussels now is trying "to take away from European capitals part of the sovereign powers in areas that don’t fall within the competence of the European Union." He highlighted the fact that essentially, the EU institutions are trying to make the most important decisions by themselves, pushing aside national governments. That’s how Brussels is trying to exclude any unpredictability associated with the need to ensure consensus in the development of key decisions by the bloc's states, in particular, trade and political ones. 💬 "During the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU supranational organizations have significantly expanded their powers in the field of healthcare, now the European Commission seeks to be at the forefront of efforts to overcome the energy crisis, seeking to be a coordinator for joint purchases of gas by member states from the spring of 2023," he said. "For us, the fundamental point is that the redistribution of powers is carried out not so much against the background of numerous crises, but under the pretext of the ‘Russian threat'."