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Russia: No decision yet on whether it will retaliate against US sanctions

By Joel Gehrke
Published August 9, 2018 4:18pm ET
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Russia: No decision yet on whether it will retaliate against US sanctions
Military forces work on a van in Winterslow, England, as investigations continue into the nerve-agent poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury, England, on March 4, 2018.

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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