{{Russia condemned new U.S. sanctions on Thursday as a primitive attempt to take revenge on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis and accused Washington of blackmailing the EU into agreeing more sanctions.}}<\/p>\n
Washington and Brussels say Moscow has been fanning separatist violence in eastern Ukraine and broadened their sanctions on Wednesday, sending Russian shares and the ruble currency down.<\/p>\n
“We consider the new set of U.S. sanctions on Russia as a primitive attempt to avenge the fact that developments in Ukraine are not following Washington’s scenario,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n
It said Washington was trying to put the blame on Moscow for the conflict in Ukraine and was encouraging bloodshed by not putting enough pressure on Kiev to stop a military operation intended to end the uprising in the east.<\/p>\n
“It is widely known that sanctions are a double-edged sword,” the ministry said, adding that it reserved the right to introduce retaliatory measures of its own which could mean the U.S. business community also lost out.<\/p>\n
A separate ministry statement on the new EU sanctions \u2014 not as far-reaching as the U.S. measures \u2014 criticized the 28-nation bloc but used less tough language.<\/p>\n
“We are disappointed that the EU, contradicting its own interests, succumbed to the blackmail of the U.S. administration and followed the path of sanctions,” it said.<\/p>\n
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