MOSCOW, March 3. /TASS/. The aim of Western sanctions against Russia is to destroy its statehood, Head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin said in a statement circulated on Thursday.
"The masks have been thrown off. The West is not just trying to put a new ‘iron curtain’ around Russia. 2We can talk about the attempts to destroy our state or to ‘cancel’ it as it is now accustomed to say in the ‘tolerant’ liberal-fascist environment," the statement says.
The United States and its allies are trying to impose an economic and information blockade of Russia as they lack the courage for open confrontation, Naryshkin said.
"As the United States and their allies have neither the possibility nor the courage to try to do that in an open and honest military and political stand-off, sneaky methods are used to establish an economic, information and humanitarian blockade. The most disgusting thing is that this is being done under the false slogans of the need to protect the sovereignty of Ukraine and European security," the SVR head said.