Russia begins to react with incredulity to new US sanctions

A Russian diplomat to the UN has described the US State Department's decision to implement new sanctions against Russia as a 'theatre of the absurd'. New sanctions will come into effect later in August after the State Department decided Russia had been responsible for a chemical weapons attack on UK soil. Dan Ashby has more.

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