India, June 29 -- The Kremlin on Sunday warned Europe against imposing fresh sanctions on Russia, cautioning that tougher measures would trigger a more painful economic recoil for EU nations.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov described the proposed sanctions as "illegal" and said Russia had developed resilience against such punitive actions.

Responding to remarks by Western European leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, that stricter sanctions could pressure Moscow into peace talks, Peskov said that only "logic and arguments" could bring Russia to the negotiating table.

"The more serious the package of sanctions, which, I repeat, we consider illegal, the more serious will be the recoil from a gun to the shoulder. This i...