Kremlin comments on new U.S. sanctions against Russia

The new sanctions the U.S. plans to slap on Russia will further complicate the situation with Moscow-Washington relations, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"It’s difficult to say about the nature of these sanctions," the spokesman said commenting on the expectations from the new wave of anti-Russian sanctions, which Washington may impose in November. "Will they further complicate the situation with Russian-US relations? The answer is unequivocal: certainly, they will."

Hardly anyone will make a forecast on the new wave of U.S. sanctions now given that "our U.S. vis-a-vis are unpredictable," he stressed.

"The fact that America has recently become unpredictable is not a secret for anyone, everyone is talking about this absolutely openly because this unpredictability of such a major country and a powerful global economy is certainly an issue for deep concerns of everyone," TASS cited Peskov as saying.

State Department spokesperson Robert Palladino said earlier that Moscow was not in compliance with the chemical and biological weapons warfare elimination act, so consultations with Congress are underway on potential new sanctions against Russia.