Russia has denounced the European Union’s move to maintain sanctions against Moscow over its role in the Ukraine conflict, calling Thursday’s decision to extend the measures “destructive.”
Speaking to reporters Friday in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to specify how Russia would respond, but said it would “do what is in its national interests in terms of retaliatory steps.”
He said that Russia would “prefer to engage in creative matters, not destructive matters such as sanctions rhetoric.”
Peskov also accused Kyiv of violating the terms of the cease-fire agreement for eastern Ukraine, signed in Minsk, Belarus, last month.
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Source: Voice of America
