Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said on August 14 that new U.S. sanctions against Ankara and Moscow were an illegitimate policy and a way for the United States to obtain an unfair competitive advantage in global trade.
Reuters: Russia’s Lavrov, in Turkey, calls US sanctions policy illegitimate
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting in Moscow on July 31, 2018. Following the assasination of DPR leader Alexander Zapharchenko on August 31, Lavrov now says the Normandy talks with Ukraine cannot continue.
