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"We are carefully monitoring this, we are aware that both the
U.S. and the EU are actively considering new sanctions," Kremlin
spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"We believe that both the current sanctions against the Russian
Federation and the new additional steps that the US and the EU
may be thinking about now will, of course, also hit the global
economy. Therefore, this may lead to an increase in the trend
towards a worldwide economic crisis."
Japan's Kyodo news agency reported that the Group of Seven (G7)
countries are considering a near-total ban on exports to Russia,
citing Japanese government sources.
Bloomberg News said on Thursday the United States and Ukraine's
allies were considering "an outright ban on most exports to
Russia". That report said officials from G7 nations were
discussing the idea before a summit meeting in Japan next month.
Russia has been hit by successive waves of Western sanctions
since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
"We must not forget that no country in the world has faced such
a volume of sanctions as we have. Therefore, we are adapting,
developing, making long-term plans, but also taking into account
the dangers that lie behind the thoughts of our opponents,"
Peskov said.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Mark Trevelyan and Felix
Light; Editing by Peter Graff)
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