Joseph Biden claims that the European Union countries did not want to impose sanctions on Russia

The European Union (EU) did not seek to impose sanctions against Russia, but it agreed to the take measures under strong pressure from Washington.

This was confirmed by Vice President Joseph Biden during a speech at the Harvard University. His words are quoted by ITAR-TASS.

According to Joseph Biden, the United States “united major economically developed countries to force Russia to pay the real price" for interfering with the situation in Ukraine.

"It is true that the EU did not want it. However, the USA has taken the lead and President insisted on it, and sometimes he even had to put in an awkward position Europe in order to make to act in order to force Russia to pay, even despite Europe’s risk of economic losses began,” said the vice-president.

Mr. Biden also assured the audience that the United States do not wish for Russia to collapse, but for it to prosper.