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Russia’s foreign ministry on Friday announced counter measures in response to tough new sanctions proposed by the United States asking Washington to reduce its diplomatic staff.
Moscow asked the US to reduce its diplomatic presence in Russia to 455 diplomats and staff and also barred it from using a Moscow summer house and storage facility.
The ministry said that this was in response to the passing of a new bill on sanctions by the Senate late yesterday. US President Donald Trump will now have to decide whether to accept or veto the measures.
President Vladimir Putin yesterday slammed what he called anti-Russian hysteria in Washington and said that Russia could not endlessly tolerate this kind of insolence. The ministry also said it would bar access to a summer house and storage facilities in Moscow used by the US embassy from 1st of next month.