Russia has reacted furiously to US President Donald Trump’s sweeping new sanctions on its oil sector, with former President Dmitry Medvedev calling the move “an act of war” and accusing Washington of abandoning diplomacy. In a post on Telegram, Medvedev denounced Trump’s decision to sanction Russia’s two biggest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, and to cancel a planned summit with Vladimir Putin in Budapest. “The United States is our adversary,” he wrote, “and their talkative ‘peacemaker’ has now fully embarked on the warpath against Russia.” Also read | More sanctions for Russia! After US, EU announces penalties for Russian oil Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, described the measures as proof that Trump had “fully aligned himself with insane Eu

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