Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday accused the United States of trying to block India and other countries from buying Russian oil, Sputnik reported.
Speaking in an interview with TV BRICS, Lavrov said Washington is using “coercive” measures such as tariffs, sanctions, and direct prohibitions to achieve economic dominance.
Lavrov referred to the peace talks in Alaska last year and said the US had presented a proposal on Ukraine, which Russia accepted. “They (US) tell us that the Ukraine problem should be resolved. In Anchorage, we accepted the US Proposal. The US position was important to us. By accepting their proposal, we seem to have completed the task of resolving the Ukrainian issue and moving on to a dull-scale, broad-based and mutually beneficial cooperation. So far, the reality is quite the opposite. New sanctions are imposed, a ‘war’ against tankers in the open sea is being waged in violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea,” Putin’s aide said.