Russia mocks British outreach to Trump and EU

U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s call for broad European “sanctions against Russia” while traveling in the United States Tuesday drew a derisive response from Moscow.

“Our British counterparts have pretty high self-esteem,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, per TASS, a state-run outlet. “The country, which is leaving the EU as part of Brexit, is trying to dictate foreign policy to the EU, and now it turns out that London wants to dictate foreign policy with regard to Russia to Washington as well.”