New sanctions underline Obama admin’s ‘unpredictable & aggressive’ foreign policy — RT News
The new US sanctions towards Russia are one other manifestation of the unpredictable and aggressive international coverage by the Obama administration, Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin press-secretary, mentioned.
“In our perspective such actions of the US present administration are a manifestation of an unpredictable and even aggressive international coverage,” Peskov informed the journalists.
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“We remorse the truth that this determination was taken by the US administration and President Obama personally,” he mentioned.
“As it mentioned earlier than, we take into account this determination and these sanctions unjustified and unlawful below worldwide regulation,” the presidential spokesman added.
The US restrictions received’t be left unanswered by Moscow, Peskov mentioned, promising “ample, reciprocal” response “that may ship vital discomfort to the US facet in the identical areas.”
However, he added that “there’s no have to rush” with the countermeasures towards Washington.
“Considering the present transition interval in Washington, we nonetheless anticipate that we’ll have the ability to eliminate such clumsy actions… of behaving like a bull in a china store, and that we’ll have the ability to make mutual joint steps to enter on the trail of normalization of our bilateral relations,” the spokesman mentioned.
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Earlier Thursday, Obama introduced a set of countermeasures in response to what he referred to as “the Russian authorities’s aggressive harassment of US officers and cyber operations aimed on the US election.”
Obama has humiliated the American individuals by his determination, because it has sophisticated the political transition for the brand new US authorities, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Facebook web page.
“Today America, the American individuals had been humiliated by their very own President. Not by worldwide terrorists, not by enemy’s troops. This time Washington was slapped by personal grasp, who has sophisticated the pressing duties for the incoming crew within the excessive,” Zakharova wrote.
She additionally promised “official statements, countermeasures and rather more” to return from Moscow on Friday.
Thirty-five Russian diplomats have been expelled from the US, with the president calling them “intelligence operatives” and in addition asserting the closure of two Russian compounds, in New York and Maryland.
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According to Obama, 9 Russian entities, together with the GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) and the FSB (Federal Security Service), have been sanctioned.
The Obama administration and the shedding Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, have accused Moscow of being behind cyberattacks that focused Clinton and her marketing campaign chairman, John Podesta, throughout their marketing campaign.
They mentioned that the whistleblower web site WikiLeaks obtained the damaging hacked emails, which dashed Clinton’s probabilities to win, from Russian intelligence businesses.
The claims had been denied by each WikiLeaks and Moscow on quite a few events, with Peskov earlier calling them “nonsense” in an interview with RT.
