Kremlin calls U.S. statement on eastern Ukraine inappropriate, plans sanctions
Moscow regards a U.S. statement linking the lifting of sanctions on Russia to its withdrawal from eastern Ukraine as inappropriate and incorrect, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.
“We have repeatedly said Russia is not present on the territory of Donbass,” Peskov told reporters, referring to a swath of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists.
“This is why we consider such statements inappropriate and incorrect.”
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A White House spokesman said on Tuesday that U.S. sanctions on Russia would remain in place until Moscow withdrew from eastern Ukraine.
Russia considering retaliatory sanctions against U.S.
Moscow is considering a range of retaliatory measures in response to a planned new round of U.S. sanctions to be imposed on Moscow over its role in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
“It goes without saying that the main principle of reacting to sanctions is reciprocity,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters.
“At our experts’ level, naturally, different variants (of Russian) sanctions are now being formulated and proposed.”
Peskov also said the Kremlin was not ruling out a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of a G-20 summit in Germany next month but “nothing concrete has so far been agreed”.
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