Moscow says sanctions against Putin, Lavrov a sign of Western ‘impotency’

Western sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and top diplomat Sergey Lavrov are a sign of the West’s “impotency,” a Russian foreign ministry official says.

“Sanctions against the president and the foreign minister of a country are an example and a demonstration of the complete impotence of the foreign policy” of the West, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says on Russian television.

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