MOSCOW, Mar 22: The Russian Foreign Ministry said today sanctions imposed by the European Union on 12 Russians and Ukrainians on Friday over Crimea were “divorced from reality”.
“It’s a pity that the European Council made a decision that is divorced from reality,” the ministry’s spokesman Alexander said in a statement on the ministry’s website.
In a separate statement, the ministry said Moscow hoped the decision to send to Ukraine a monitoring mission of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe would help resolve what it called an “internal Ukrainian crisis”. (AGENCIES)
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