Russian President approves Foreign Ministry’s response to US sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved of the statement made by the Russian Foreign Ministry in response to the anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the US.

"Of course, such measures are impossible without the president’s approval," Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov noted.

Peskov said that the Russian response to the anti-Russian sanctions appeared before Trump signed the bill "because in this case the bigger importance, probably, is the form, in which [the bill] passed the Senate". "Technologically, this form is practically final," TASS cited him as saying.

He stressed, the White House said earlier in statements "about possible tougher sanctions, thus in fact it changes nothing."

Peskov said that the Kremlin will not add anything to the statement made by the Russian Foreign Ministry related to the US bill on anti-Russian sanctions.

"I have nothing to add, so I will not add anything," Peskov concluded.