According to Zakharova, this was done “in order to somehow build some… muscles on the international track during her election campaign.”
He added that after a brief conversation between the heads of departments, the Russian Foreign Ministry saw a “media bacchanalia” in the US media.
Zakharova called the Blinken-State Department story about how the US Secretary of State came close to negotiating with Lavrov a “saga” and a “song,” “almost multi-format, and disarmament.”
At the same time, the diplomat noted that the current US administration has “zero achievements”, with Russia’s isolation “once again flown” and all that is left is “little spoiling what they are doing”.
