Moscow slams new EU sanctions,reserves right for retaliatory

MOSCOW - 5 August 2017: The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed "deep regret" over Brussels' decision to expand the anti-Russian sanction list, Russia Today reported Friday.

The ministry called it an "unfriendly and unjustified" move and said Moscow reserves the right to institute reciprocal measures.

"We are disappointed with the politicization of the issue around the delivery of Siemens gas turbines to Crimea that has been reduced to absurd," the ministry said in statement.

A "loose interpretation" of the sanctions policy used by Germany, which called for new sanctions against Moscow, is "in direct contradiction to both international law and the principle of international relations," it added.

The ministry also stressed that the "responsibility for all possible economic costs incurred by Siemens and other German companies working in Russia falls fully on the EU as well as on the German government."