US president said he had good conversations with his Moscow counterpart but they ‘just don’t go anywhere’
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Russia’s hawkish former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that American sanctions on Russian oil were an “act of war” against his nation after Washington sought to strong-arm the Kremlin into sitting down for peace talks over Ukraine.
Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, called the United States an “adversary” on Telegram, and indicated that Trump “has now fully embarked on the warpath against Russia.”
“They will, of course, say he couldn’t help but be pressured in Congress, etc. This doesn’t change the main point: the decisions taken are an act of war against Russia. And now Trump has fully aligned himself with insane Europe,” he wrote.
