Moscow-Sana
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed today that the new sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russian officials under the pretext of the case of the Russian opposition Alexei Navalny constitute a deliberate hostile step.
Russian Sputnik news agency quoted Peskov as saying, "The Council of the European Union harmed relations with our country by taking such a decision, and Moscow of course will analyze the situation and act according to its interests," adding that "this measure unfortunately constitutes an intentional unfriendly step towards Russia .. no logic or justification can be seen. For this decision at all. ”
Peskov expressed the Russian government's regret over the association's linking of its relations with Moscow with the Navalny case.
In turn, the head of the Committee for the Protection of State Sovereignty in the Russian Federation Council Andrei Klimov announced that Russia would respond to the European Union sanctions against Russian officials, explaining that "in such cases when personal sanctions are imposed, the response must be similar."
"The Russians who have been included on the European Union sanctions list have nothing to do with the Navalny case, but political accounts are settled with them by those who fled from Russia to the West," Klimov stressed.
Earlier in the day, the European Union imposed sanctions against individuals and one Russian scientific establishment allegedly linked to the poisoning of the dissident Navalny.
