Kremlin regards anti-Russian bill approved by US sad and dismaying event

The Kremlin regards as a rather sad and dismaying event the House of Representatives of the US Congress has voted for a bill on tighter sanctions against Russia.

"Now one can say that the news is rather sad from the standpoint of Russian-US relations and their future. It is no less dismaying in terms of international law and international trading relations," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in comments on a US bill envisaging tightening of individual sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea, approved by the House of Representatives.

Peskov said that the Kremlin will refrain from wordings as to new sanctions of the US before they become a law,  "So far we are speaking about a bill and we are not going to make any substantive assessments. The attitude to this will be formulated after a thorough analysis and the decision will certainly be made by the head of state, President Vladimir Putin," TASS cited Peskov as saying.

He added that his comments were based "on the information about the bill available to us.".