Kremlin Vows To Respond To “Unacceptable” New US Sanctions With “Retaliatory Measures”

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Russia has vowed to respond against “unacceptable” new US sanctions against Kremlin over its alleged role in a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain.

The US State Department had said on Wednesday that the new sanctions were in response to “the use of a ‘Novichok’ nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate UK citizen Sergei Skripal”.

Skripal was a Russian double agent. He was attacked alongside his daughter Yulia on English soil in March.

And the US sanctions are aimed at punishing Putin’s government for having “used chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law,” spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.

But Russia has vowed to retaliate.

Russia will “work on developing retaliatory measures,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told journalists.

“Whatever the sanctions against Russia are, the retaliatory measures will be the same,” she said.

“If they dream up some (measures), we will answer — it’s not our choice.”





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