U.S. Treasury sanctions against Sovfrakht managers for facilitating jet fuel shipments to Russian forces in Syria unacceptable - Russian Foreign Ministry

NEW YORK, UN. Sept 26 (Interfax) - New U.S. Treasury sanctions, which were imposed "for facilitating jet fuel shipments to Russian military forces in Syria," are absolutely inadmissible, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said.

"This is clearly a continuation of the old American policy based on unilateral sanctions, national sanctions, which we regard as absolutely unacceptable," Vershinin told Interfax on Thursday.