MOSCOW. April 27 (Interfax) - Russian presidential press officer Dmitry Peskov has declined to comment on the statements made in Kyiv on the sanctions against Vladimir Putin that are being prepared, saying he is not confident that these reports are serious.
"I currently don't understand what it means in the practical legal sense and therefore it's impossible to say anything," Peskov told Business FM radio.
"We don't know what sanctions these are, maybe it's some dummy," Peskov said. "We don't know yet if it's serious or not," he said.
Last week, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Hroisman signed an address to international organizations, parliaments and governments of democratic countries adopted by the Ukrainian parliament on April 22 calling for the imposition of "personal sanctions against people responsible for illegally holding Ukrainian citizen Nadia Savchenko in Russia."
The decree is accompanied by a list of such people (the so-called Savchenko list), which, in particular, comprises Russian President Vladimir Putin, Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov, Investigative Committee Director Alexander Bastrykin, and some other Russian officials.