the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has the reaction of the West on the recognition of the separatist areas in eastern Ukraine expected called. Russia is used to sanctions, he added.
Lavrov was therefore not impressed by the threat of sanctions. “Our European, American, British colleagues will not stop and will not calm down until they have exhausted all their options for the so-called ‘punishment against Russia’,” he says. “They are already threatening us with all sorts of sanctions, or as they say now , with the ‘mother of all sanctions’,” says Lavrov.