Russia on Thursday said that the European Union (EU) sanctions against Moscow are effectively working against Brussels itself, and the potential for their expansion has been exhausted.

“The sanctions they’re imposing against Russia primarily work against the European Union. Brussels’s ability to expand sanctions against our country has largely been exhausted,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova was quoted as saying by the country’s leading Tass news agency.

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“They’ve already exhausted virtually every option for implementing their concept of inflicting, as they’ve devised, a strategic defeat on Russia, damaging the Russian economy and its defense capability,” the diplomat added while commenting on the 19th sanctions package.

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