The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced that the country would respond to EU economic sanctions with its own measures.
"As we have already said and commented, these are completely unfriendly lines which are contradictory to EU interests. Russian officials at different levels have already made it clear that we will in turn take adequate measures and that our answer will be absolutely commensurate with the damage these sanctions cause to the economy of our country," said Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich.