EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told Russia’s Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Monday that the West would never recognize the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea.
Sitting beside the Russian foreign minister at a news conference, Mogherini rebuffed his assertion that the seizure of Crimea was justified by a need to protect Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine. The Kremlin has long made that argument, though there is little evidence that Russian speakers were ever under threat in Crimea or anywhere else in the country.
Lavrov blamed soured relations with Brussels on “the EU response to Russian actions” — presumably meaning economic sanctions by the …read more
Source: European Voice
