The Kremlin spokesman said Western countries were racing to deal with Russia, but they had no measures to put pressure on the country.

We can see that European Union (EU) and North American countries are competing to apply non -friendly measures with Russia.

The statement was made by Peskov when he was asked to comment on the possibility of Europe for banning the Schengen visa for Russian citizens in response to military campaign in Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in Moscow in December 2021.

Earlier, MPs from the four largest Finnish parties offered to stop granting Schengen tourist visas with Russian citizens, as a sanctions on Moscow.

Peskov emphasized that Russia will react and act very negatively if the Finland stops the Schengen visa to citizens of this country.

Any action that affects Russian citizens will activate the countermeasures, he stated that Moscow's reaction to such actions of Finland will be very easy to understand and predict.

Typti Tuppurainen, Minister of European issues of Finland, said the country had no intention of stopping a Schengen visa to Russian citizens.

One day earlier, the Russian Embassy in Washington also criticized the US State Department's statements that Moscow was increasingly isolated.

The efforts for the world to see our country is isolated from the imagination of American officials, who are getting far apart, the Russian Embassy said.

Since Russia launched a military campaign in Ukraine on February 24, the US and Western allies have imposed a series of sanctions against Moscow, in order to pressure Russia to end the war.

Russian -European gas tensions started in the end of February, regarding the EU sanctions and increasing heat because Moscow responded.

The decision to reduce the Nord Stream 1 pipeline capacity is said to be a test from Moscow of Europe's stamina when lacking Russian gas.