WASHINGTON, November 17. /TASS/. The United States’ claims regarding its leadership "of the entire planet" lead to an increased resistance of the global community and Washington should come to realize the futility of "waving the sanctions baton," the Russian Embassy in the United States said in a statement on Friday.

"Washington finally has to realize the futility of waving the sanctions baton and trying to break Russia," the statement reads.

"The unipolar world is irrevocably becoming a thing of the past," according to the Russian Embassy’s statement. "American claims to leadership over the entire planet are causing increasing resistance from the global majority."

"The sooner the local ruling circles quiet their ambitions and abandon the methods of economic and political dictatorship, the easier it will be for them to integrate into the emerging polycentric system of international relations," the statement says.

"It is symptomatic that the American authorities announced new restrictions on November 16," according to the Russian Embassy. "On this particular date, 90 years ago, diplomatic relations between the USSR and the US were established."

Russia’s diplomatic mission in the United States recalled that: "The history of interaction between the two powers has seen ups and downs, confrontation and detente, brotherhood in arms and an arms race."

"However, modern times are characterized by outright aggression on the part of Washington, which has proclaimed the ‘strategic defeat’ of Russia as its chief goal," the Russian Embassy’s statement reads. "The aim is to deplete our economy, provoke protest sentiments and demonize Moscow on the international scene."

According to the Russian Embassy’s statement: "The United States persistently try to use an entire sanctions arsenal against us."

"Restrictions are multiplying both under some far-fetched pretexts about the need to resist Russian influence in various parts of the world, as well as for purely selfish purposes," the statement reads. "In particular, we hint at the administration’s desire to redraw the global energy map using illegitimate and anti-market initiatives like ‘price ceilings’ against our exports.".