The European Union's actions regarding the Russian oil price cap are a farce, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a briefing. "What Brussels has orchestrated around the oil price cap situation can only be described as a farce. Zakharova pointed out the absurdity of Brussels "rewriting even anti-Russian sanctions on the fly." "They agreed to a freeze on the current price cap for a year ahead, because otherwise, market conditions would have led to its automatic upward adjustment," she went on. "This says a lot about the long-term planning abilities of EU eurocrats and the effectiveness of Brussels' sanctions mechanisms.