MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev lashed new US sanctions as a “full-fledged economic war” on Moscow, saying they crushed hopes for repairing ties and demonstrated President Donald Trump’s “total weakness … in the most humiliating way.”
Trump reluctantly signed off on the new sanctions Wednesday, bowing to domestic pressure after the White House failed to scupper the bill or water it down.
Medvedev warned the move would have “consequences”, saying “it ends hopes for improving our relations with the new US administration.”
“Second, it is a declaration of a full-fledged economic war on Russia,” Medvedev said on his Facebook page.
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Source: theSun
