Russian President Vladimir Putin told new US ambassador Lynne Tracy in a Kremlin ceremony on Tuesday that US support for a revolution in Ukraine in 2014 had led to the current situation where Russia and Ukraine were in conflict.
He said relations with Washington were in a deep crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told the European Union's ambassador at a Kremlin ceremony on Wednesday that relations between Russia and the bloc had "seriously degraded," and that the EU had initiated a "geopolitical confrontation" with Russia.