Member of the State Duma Committee for International Policy Svetlana Zhurova in a conversation with Gazeta.ru said that the US expects retaliatory measures from Russia, not cooperation.
“In this sensitive issue, I would not like to guess. We can surprise them at all and let’s make sure that we did not poison anyone, and did not use gas. They are from us the sanctions are waiting for response, not cooperation. They just do not need it at all, “the deputy said.
Earlier, the head of the State Duma committee for CIS affairs, Leonid Kalashnikov, linked the new sanctions against Russia with the confrontation between Trump and the US Senate.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova called the “far-fetched” pretext, under which the American side intends to introduce anti-Russian sanctions.