The Kremlin says that US sanctions are "the worst since the Cold War"

Russia's Prosecutor General Accuses the West of "Destroying the Norms" of International Law

MADRID, 16 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov assured on Thursday that the sanctions imposed by the Administration of US President Joe Biden against Russia as a result of the invasion of Ukraine "are the worst since the Cold War."

"Indeed. In the first place, such serious restrictions were not imposed even during the Cold War," he clarified before stressing that the country is facing a "large-scale economic war."

In this sense, he has asserted that the country "faces economic strangulation and isolation" at the international level and has pointed out that Biden has been imposing sanctions "unilaterally", as reported by Russian state agencies.

This same Thursday, the country's attorney general, Igor Krasnov, has accused the West of "destroying the norms" of International Law and "universal values" and has accused Western countries of "daily promoting a flagrant policy of double standards and baseless accusations."

In addition, he has insisted that these States seek "the division into two blocks of good people versus bad people, having only national interests."

In relation to the situation in Ukraine, he has highlighted what he considers to be "the hypocrisy of Western diplomacy" and has asserted that it has been impossible "to tolerate the rampant nationalist ideology, the denial of the right to exist of the Russian people and their massacres".