11-01-2017 18:52 via news.yahoo.com

Tillerson says supports keeping Russia sanctions, notes Moscow aggression

By Patricia Zengerle and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, said on Wednesday he favored maintaining current U.S. sanctions against Russia for now and said NATO allies were right to be alarmed by Moscow's aggression, but he refrained from calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal. Relations with Russia dominated Tillerson's confirmation hearing as senators pressed him on whether he agreed with sanctio
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