“The decision has already been taken at an appropriate level,” RIA Novosti quotes.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry called the EU sanctions groundless.

The agency Bloomberg, citing sources, announced plans for EU countries to impose sanctions against Russia because of the incident in the Kerch Strait.

The head of the US Foreign Policy Research Center, Sergei Samuilov, in an interview with NSN, commented on a draft law on new sanctions against Russia prepared by US senators.