Zakharova compares EU to bankrupt after Borrell's insulting words about Russia

The head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrel allowed himself to make insulting remarks about Russia out of envy and helplessness, and the EU looks like a bankrupt, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Gazeta.ru.

"Borrell said all this due to envy and helplessness," the diplomat noted.

She emphasised that the EU now resembles a bankrupt country that has gone bankrupt by no longer filling up with quality fuel within its means. Zakharova recalled that only one EU country has a nuclear arsenal, the rest have never been able to produce it.

"There is nothing to be proud of, that's why they emanate anger," Zakharova summarised.

On August 19, the EU diplomatic chief criticised Russia's economy. Borrel called Russia a "petrol station with an atomic bomb" and an "economic dwarf".