Russia Responds To New Sanctions From The EU And The U.S.

Moscow has already imposed a year-long ban on the import of meat, seafood, fruit and vegetables, as well as milk products from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway as a response to Western sanctions. © Flickr/ greg westfall

Moscow To Give 'Appropriate' Response To New EU Sanctions -- RT

Moscow will take “appropriate measures” in response to possible new sanctions from the European Union, the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson said.

“On many levels, the Russian leadership has made it clear that we’ll take adequate measures and our response will be absolutely comparable with the actions by the EU,” the Foreign Ministry spokesman said at briefing in Moscow.

Lukashevich also said that the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine in July has been used as a pretext by the West to push through economic sanctions against Russia.

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My Comment: If the Ukraine (civil) war was raging right now .... I can understand the logic for these sanctions. But the ceasefire in Ukraine is still holding .... Russian soldiers according to the Ukraine government are leaving .... so why the push for sanctions now? The timing is all wrong .... and bottom line .... I fail to see how this is going to help the situation in Ukraine right now ... in fact .... I can see the reverse.

Update: On the flip side .... this move by Russia to cut gas exports to Poland is also not going to help .... but such is the state of Russia - Europe relations today.