Russia won’t move to retaliate against new U.S. sanctions until it understands how those sanctions will work, a top Russian official said Thursday.

“As we still do not understand what it means officially, it would be definitely wrong to speak of any retaliatory measures now,” Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday, according to TASS, a state-run outlet.

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