On Thursday, the United States imposed new Russia-related sanctions on 37 individuals and 192 entities for their alleged role in "harmful activities" of the Russian government.
"[It is a] continuation of the policy of inflicting, as they formulate it, a strategic defeat on us. Every year something new is invented by them — either deterrence, or something else, now — a strategic defeat. This will never happen," Zakharova told the Rossiya 24 broadcaster.