for President Biden's sweeping sanctions against them!

Russia has sanctioned eight senior US administration officials, including FBI director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, barring them from entering the country in retaliation for President Biden's sweeping sanctions against the Kremlin on Thursday.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also said the Kremlin has advised the US Ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, that he should return to Washington to hold "detailed" and "serious" consultations.

Russia's ambassador to the US returned to Moscow in March after Biden said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "killer" in a TV interview.

The Russian foreign ministry released a statement on its website Friday naming Wray and Haines, along with US Attorney General Merrick Garland, Biden's domestic policy advisor Susan Rice, Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the director of the US Federal Bureau of Prisons Michael Carvajal.

The statement also names John Bolton, former national security adviser to former President Donald Trump and former CIA Director Robert James Woolsey, Jr.

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