Moscow will retaliate the latest round of US sanctions, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, warning that Washington's moves would affect international stability.
"We stress that the United States should have no illusions about the possibility of continuing this line without negative consequences for themselves. Our side will respond, and not necessarily mirroring [Washington's sanctions]," the ministry said in a statement.
"Such a reckless course is causing concern, even among US allies. It is fraught with serious costs for international stability and will, without a doubt, boomerang to hit US interests," the statement reads.
The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security added more Russian companies to its Entity List, saying they were "acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States" earlier in the day.
The new rule aims at tightening US sanctions on the blacklisted Russian companies, including the state oil company Rosneft, by adding their subsidiaries to the list. Other targeted entities are ports in Russia’s Black Sea Crimea region – in Kerch, Feodosia, Yevpatoria, Sevastopol, Yalta – as well as a Kerch Strait ferry line.
The ministry also stated that Washington's actions "devalue its own signals about an interest to cooperate with us on solving a number of pressing international problems. Fruitless attempts to put us under the pressure of sanctions seems to teach Washington's strategists nothing."
(Sputnik)
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The European Union has extended until March 15 the sanctions blacklist against entities and individuals of Russia and the self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine, a European diplomatic source has said...
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The decision will come into force after the publication in the EU Official Journal.
The blacklist, which was due to expire on September 15, includes 151 persons, namely Russian officials, politicians, businessmen and law enforcers, as well as practically all officials of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics.
All of them are banned from entering the European Union. Their assets, should any be identified in the European banks, are liable to a freeze. Also, on the same list there are 37 entities, including all known military and political agencies of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics. The European businesses are not allowed to have any contacts with them.
Moscow has repeatedly said that the Western sanctions introduced over the conflict in Ukraine are counter-productive. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earlier said "the fanning of confrontation and attempts at sanction pressures on Russia are a dead end."
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