Deputy Shkhagoshev: the United States will not have the courage to impose serious economic sanctions against the Russian Federation to impose serious economic sanctions on Russia. This is reported by RIA Novosti.
The parliamentarian stressed that the restrictions have been discussed for a long time, but such a scenario will not be implemented, Washington will not agree to this, although Moscow is ready for anything.
“This is not Korea, not Iran, not some other country … They will not go to extreme measures, they will not have the potential courage to do so. And potential courage means that they feel how and how we can respond, “Shkhagoshev said.
The deputy added that the United States will” revolve around the previously announced sanctions, “which have practically no effect on the development of Russia .
Earlier, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that reports on possible new US sanctions against Russia, which were published by the American television channel CNN, are information hysteria. Thus, he answered the question whether such reports could negatively affect the upcoming video conversation between Putin and Biden.
On December 6, the American television channel CNN, citing anonymous sources, said that the United States had planned to introduce a new package of sanctions against Russia. The project includes the so-called “nuclear option” – disconnecting Russia from the international payment system SWIFT. In the spring of 2021, the European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution, according to which these sanctions will be applied in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.