16 Mar 2015 20:55

Russian envoy: EU has no strategy behind sanctions

MOSCOW. March 16 (Interfax) - Russia's permanent envoy to the European Union said in a television program on Monday that he did not think the EU has any strategy underlying its anti-Russian sanctions.

"I don't think they have any long-term strategy in their sanctions. There is none, nor can there be any," Vladimir Chizhov told the Russiya-24 channel. "Apparently, they haven't been able to pre-calculate their own damages, nor would they have been able to. Or pre-calculate the way European Union member countries would behave either."