Russia vows to strike back against ‘unacceptable’ new US sanctions
Moscow — The Kremlin vowed on Thursday to retaliate against "unacceptable" new US sanctions against Russia over its alleged role in a nerve agent attack on a former spy as the rouble and Russian stocks tumbled. The action by the US state department is the latest salvo in a series of disputes between the rival powers and comes less than a month after US President Donald Trump met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. The state department said on Wednesday the new US sanctions were in response to "the use of a ‘Novichok’ nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate UK citizen Sergei Skripal" — who was a Russian double agent — and his daughter Yulia on English soil in March. They 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. The punitive measures triggered a furious reaction from Moscow. Russia will "work on developing retaliatory measures", foreign ...
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