Moscow - Russia today defended its right to implement measures in response to the announcement by the US of a new round of sanctions, now against the state monopoly Gazprom subsidiaries and personalities of this country.

The presidential spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, said that Moscow might also react to policy restrictions applied by Washington under the pretext of punishing the Russian position on the Ukraine crisis, rejecting the coup of February 2014.

Russia also supports the cause of the insurgent population of Donetsk and Lugansk, in the Ukrainian southeast, opposite the coup government in Kiev, which launched an offensive in April 2014 against these regions, with the balance so far nearly 10,000 dead, mostly civilians.

Peskov said that the announcement of sanctions contradicts the atmosphere of dialogue to seek cooperation in specific fields that seemed to prevail in meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Obama Barack in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.

Putin and Obama met for nearly two hours on the sidelines of the summit of the Group of 20 to address the situation in Syria and in particular, coordination of military action against terrorist movements, including Islamic State (EI).

Diplomatic sources considered here that the talks initiated earlier this month in Geneva on cooperation in the military field against terrorists in Syria now would pass to a new phase, because it would try to agree on joint operations.

Russian aviation acts in Syria at the request of Damascus, while Washington formed an international coalition with the announced purpose of fighting EI, without the consent of the Levantine country.

For Peskov, who indicated that the restrictions will be analyzed, such measures overshadow efforts to seek compromises on issues of interest to both states.