Granting Ukraine and Moldova candidate status is consistent with the bloc’s goal of “containing” Russia, Maria Zakharova claimed
The European Council’s decision to grant EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova proves that the bloc’s goal is to “contain” Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.
She claimed the EU is continuing its strategy of “active geopolitical development of the CIS space” in order to “contain” Moscow.
“Moreover, all means are being used – from financial and economic leverage to military support,” Zakharova added.
The spokeswoman said this strategy is making the bloc turn a blind eye to the strict accession criteria which has been applied to other EU candidates.
“The future of ‘United Europe’, its ‘ideals’ of democracy are being sacrificed for the sake of the unrestrained expansion of the EU, the political and economic enslavement of its neighbors,” Zakharova said.