Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that Russia was prepared to break off relations with the European Union if it continued with planned sanctions. Sergey was asked: “Are we heading towards a break with the EU?” in a snippet of an interview by the Solovyov-life program published on its Telegram channel and shared by the Foreign Ministry. He responded that Russia was ready to do so in the event that sanctions are imposed in areas that create risks for Russia’s economy. “We proceed from the fact that we’re ready [for that]. In the event that we again see sanctions imposed in some sectors that create risks for our economy, including in the most sensitive spheres,” Lavrov said. “We don’t want to isolate ourselves from global life, but we have to be ready for that. If you want peace then prepare for war,” he said. The full interview is due to be released later on Friday. In a separate interview published in the Izvestia newspaper earlier on Friday, Russian permanent representative to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, said Russia-EU talks would continue and that Borrell’s Moscow trip was a positive sign of a willingness to engage. Watch video 00:44 EU-Russia talks amid ‘low point’ in… Read full this story
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