Earlier, 16 lawyers wrote a joint appeal to the European Commission and the Council of the EU with a call to change the situation with sanctions.

According to RIA Novosti, the text of the letter was published by Agence France-Presse.

“From the very beginning of the listing, the decisions were marred by errors and violations,” the document says.

Earlier, the media wrote that the Western sanctions imposed against Russia not only failed to destroy the country's economy, but also had the opposite effect, harming Western countries more.