The bill on anti-Russian sanctions, which passed a procedural vote in the US Senate, does a disservice to the administration of President Donald Trump, the Russian embassy in Washington said in response to a request from TASS.

“The bill named after the deceased clinical Russophobe Senator Lindsey Graham (on the Russian list of terrorists and extremists — TASS) is doing the current US administration a disservice. At the beginning of this year, when Graham shuttled between Kiev and Washington demanding that anti-Russian sanctions be tightened as much as possible, the White House tried to moderate the excessive zeal of lawmakers saying the president has all the levers for economic and other pressure on the Kremlin, and additional legislative requirements only narrow his field for maneuver,” it said.

“Now, as the US got bogged down in the Iranian adventure and the prospect of an energy markets collapse is realistic, Donald Trump’s fellow party hawks are putting sticks in the wheels of the presidential foreign policy to the satisfaction of the opposition from the Democratic Party."