OREANDA-NEWS  Russia will take retaliatory measures to the new EU sanctions. This was stated by the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, commenting on the 18th package of EU sanctions against Russia, according to Izvestia.

"We will have to see what sanctions they have come up with. We will respond as we have previously responded. They very often shoot themselves in the foot with these sanctions, sometimes even higher," said the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry. He stressed that Moscow would take retaliatory measures, both defensive and countermeasures.