WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – US sanctions imposed on Russia last week produced results “close enough” to Washington’s hopes, a senior Biden administration official said on Friday as tensions appear to ease between the two countries about Ukraine.
“Our intention was to act in a proportionate way, to target our approach and to signal that we had the capacity to impose much higher costs if Russia did not stop its behavior,” said Daleep Singh, an economic adviser for Russia. the White House, in an interview.
According to him, “the results have so far been quite close to what we expected”.
Russia’s defense minister said on Friday he had started withdrawing troops involved in the Crime. (Trevor Hunnicutt and Andrea Shalal; French version Camille Raynaud)
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