Maria Zakharova: the use of sanctions against Russia demonstrates the weakness of Washington 
The use of sanctions against Russia demonstrates the weakness of Washington. This opinion was expressed by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova, TASS reports.
The diplomat noted that earlier the United States considered the policy of economic restrictions against Moscow to be a manifestation of force. She pointed out that the use of illegal means of influence in foreign policy and the refusal of legal opportunities speaks of the weakness of the American state, and this fact does not require additional evidence at the moment.
Earlier, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby accused Russia of the fact that it continues to increase the number of its troops near the border of Ukraine. He stressed that we are talking about units of a combined nature, which “continue to assemble on – or not on, but close to – the Ukrainian border.”