Moscow on Thursday reacted to new U.S. sanctions against a Russian company and individual, with the country’s foreign ministry issuing a statement calling them “destructive”.

The Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the new designations which targeted a shipping and port logistics company working in the country’s Far East and its director, for continuing to provide services to sanctioned North Korean oil tankers.

“The destructive U.S.’ tactics, pursued beyond the framework of the U.N. Security Council and its 1718 Sanctions Committee, is only able to undermine the progress, which has been made recently towards the settlement,” the foreign ministry said.

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