Moscow. February 28. INTERFAX - The EU's actions and its role in the events in Ukraine will not remain without a tough response, Russia will continue to ensure the implementation of vital national interests without regard to sanctions, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday evening.
"The actions of the European Union will not remain without a tough response. Russia will continue to ensure the realization of vital national interests without regard to sanctions and their threats. It is time for Western countries to understand that their undivided dominance in the global economy has long been in the past," the text of the document says.
It notes that "EU citizens and structures involved in the supply of lethal weapons and fuel and lubricants to the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be responsible for any consequences of such actions in the context of an ongoing special military operation. They cannot fail to understand the degree of danger of the consequences."
The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that "the EU decision taken on February 27 to start supplying lethal weapons to the Ukrainian military is self-revealing. It marks the end of European integration as a "pacifist" project for the reconciliation of European peoples after the Second World War." "The EU finally sided with the Kiev regime, which unleashed a policy of genocide against part of its own population," the statement says.