European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová hit back at Moscow after she was banned from entering Russia, telling Monday’s Brussels Playbook that the regime “aims to divide us and sow mistrust” in Europe.
“There has been enough evidence for everyone to realize that Vladimir Putin’s Russia is not a standard international partner,” said Jourová, one of the eight European officials targeted by the Kremlin’s sanctions, implemented in retaliation for EU sanctions on Russians. She cited the Dutch reports on the 2014 MH17 plane crash in Ukraine, the 2018 Salisbury attack in the U.K. on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, and the Vrbětice case, in which Czech authorities recently accused Russian intelligence agents of being behind a warehouse blast in 2014 that killed two people.
