Washington – The United States is actively cooperating with the European Union on new sanctions against Russia, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has said.
“We are well aligned now on what a next round of economic sanctions would look like, in addition to continuing to look for individuals who one would sanction,” Assistant Secretary for Europe Victoria Nuland told a think tank in Washington.
The United States and the European Union “are now working on a series of sanctions in the energy sector, in the banking sector, in the defense sector,” she said.
Nuland accused Russia of undertaking “further efforts to aid and abet separatists in this extremely dangerous way” she said that “there is no question that we had a serious deterioration on the ground over the last week.”
Nuland said that Washington disapproves of the sale of French Mistral warships to Moscow.
“We made it clear well before the Ukraine crisis that we had large concerns about whether Mistral was the right thing to be sending,” she said.
“We have not been shy about saying that the timing is certainly wrong, we will continue to make this point,” she said.
