The United States designated earlier a Russian-based maritime company, three Sovfracht directors and five vessels for an alleged scheme to evade sanctions to facilitate the delivery of jet fuel to Russian forces in Syria
The Russian Foreign Ministry slammed Friday the newly imposed US sanctions as “blatant support for terrorism”, stressing that Washington has toped ‘own recklessness” by introducing new restrictions.
“The [round of] sanctions that the United States introduced on September 26 against several Russian nationals, several vessels and one entity, has become the 75th since 2011 when Washington abandoned its policy to ‘reset' bilateral relations and began destroying them. Since then, the US initiators of the sanctions policy against Russia have not achieved any result. This time, they probably excelled their own recklessness”, the ministry said in a statement.
The Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that Moscow had repeatedly noted Washington's policies “patronizing” terrorists from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front, providing them with needed means and protecting them from strikes, despite the group being a “direct successor” to al Qaeda terror group.
“The United States has exposed its open support for terrorism. For Russia, the sanctions are nothing new. Fighting terrorists in Syria will continue despite the United States patronizing them and illegally occupying a part of this sovereign…
