“We for obvious reasons don’t have comparable leverage over the U.S.,” he said.

 Russia won’t immediately respond to the U.S. decision to ban its financial institutions from buying new Russian government debt in the primary market, Lavrov said. “We for obvious reasons don’t have comparable leverage over the U.S.,” he said.

The ruble and Russian bonds initially fell on reports of the new U.S. sanctions but later made up most of their losses.