The foreign Ministry said the US “scorched earth tactics” against Russia – RBC

the administration of the President of the United States applies in relation to the Russian tactics of “scorched earth”, said at a briefing on 13 October, the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, reports “Interfax”.

In her words, “the American representatives in the International monetary Fund, the world Bank and other multilateral financial institutions have been instructed to prevent the allocation of funds for any programs related to Russia.”

the foreign Ministry “regretted” watching the USA “continue to destroy bilateral relations,” she added. “Almost daily we hear of the threat of further expansion of sanctions, and calls on the international community to go the same way,” she said.

foreign Ministry spokesman also expressed doubt about the alleged operating in the United States, Russian hackers, stressing that “nobody saw”. “With these Russian hackers are simply driven into the head of the American people, the American citizens ‘perception of Russia as an enemy”, she added.

on Tuesday, October 11, at the briefing the press Secretary of the White house Josh Ernest said about the intention of U.S. President Barack Obama to give a “proportionate response” to Moscow for hackers. “There are a number of possible retaliation,” and the US leader chooses one of them, he said. In response, the Kremlin has called the accusations of Russian involvement in cyber attacks in the United States “absurd” and “unfounded”, stressing that “Russia always was, is and will remain committed to the principles of combating cyber-terrorism and hacking.”

In early October, the US state Department announced the termination of talks with Russia on the Syrian issue. The reason Washington is called a failure by Moscow of its obligations under the Russian-American agreement on the ceasefire in Syria.

Commenting on the US decision, Zakharova said on air of “First channel” that Washington failed to meet its key agreements and is now trying to shift responsibility to others. In her words, the inaction of the American side led to the fact that “the militants regrouped, got a gun and held the mobilization of its resources.”