The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday sanctions imposed by the European Union on 12 Russians and Ukrainians on Friday over Crimea were 'divorced from reality'. 'It's a pity that the European Council made a decision that is divorced from reality,' the ministry's spokesman Alexander said in a statement on the ministry's website. In a separate statement, the ministry said Moscow hoped the decision to send to Ukraine a monitoring mission of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe would help resolve what it called an 'internal Ukrainian crisis'.
