By Guy Faulconbridge and Dmitry Antonov

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday it was now absolutely clear that the United States was Russia’s adversary and that U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent steps on Ukraine amounted to an act of war against Russia.

Trump said during the U.S. election campaign that he would swiftly end the Ukraine war which his administration has cast as a “proxy war” between Washington and Moscow, though he has recently expressed frustration about President Vladimir Putin.

Trump, who has described Russia as a “paper tiger”, said on Wednesday he had canceled a planned summit with Putin, and the U.S. Treasury slapped sanctions on two of Russia’s biggest oil companies.

“The United States is our adversary, and their talkative ‘

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