Russia is promising retaliation against an 'orchestrated campaign' of disinformation by the United States if allegations of election-year political hacking lead the Obama administration to level new economic sanctions.

'To be honest, we are tired of [the] lie about the "Russian hackers," which is being poured down in the United States from the very top,' Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday.

Zakharova also called reports of possible new sanctions a 'provocation directed by the White House,' suggesting that Moscow will respond.

Obama's State Department could be just days away from announcing a set of sanctions designed to punish Russia and its president,Vladimir Putin, for meddling in America's November election.

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President Barack Obama (left) is poised to issue new sanctions against Russia and Vladimir Putin (right) in response to Moscow's alleged involvement in election-year U.S. hacking

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (speaking) said Wednesday that sanctions would impact Putin 'as an individual'

Citing unnamed sources, The Washington Post reported Tuesday that a package of consequences could include economic sanctions, 'diplomatic censure' and a new round of retaliatory cyber operations targeting Russia.

During a press briefing, Zakharova laid into the U.S. and questioned both the Obama administration's truthfulness and its motives.

'The biggest accusation is that Russia allegedly launched cyber attacks at the US information space with a view to interfering in US internal affairs, in particular, the election system,' she said.

'Russia is being presented as a monster that is ready to encroach on the holy of the Western holies – its democratic principles. Of course, these allegations have not been supported by any facts.'

'You probably remember that we appealed to the United States to produce evidence of this at our briefings, in the Foreign Ministry’s comments and in statements made by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and interviews he gave. We asked for at least something, even the smallest facts. We did this publicly and during bilateral talks,' Zakharova argued.

'You can ask our American colleagues how often Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has asked US Secretary of State John Kerry for this evidence. In response, we heard nothing but another helping of nonsense and accusations. It was an orchestrated campaign; nothing was left to chance.'

The outgoing Obama administration is focused on making sure incoming president Donald Trump can't easily roll back new sanctions against Russia and Putin

Meanwhile, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham warned during a trip to Latvia that Congress will back any plan to level penalties at Russia.

'You can expect that the Congress will investigate the Russian involvement in our elections and there will be bipartisan sanctions coming that will hit Russia hard, particularly Putin as an individual,' Graham said.

Russian officials have denied accusations of interference in the election, but the Obama White House has accused Putin of orchestrating a series of hacks that exposed embarrassing secrets of the Democratic national Committee and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

Graham also said that 'Russia is trying to break the back of democracies all around the world,'

'It is now time for Russia to understand – enough is enough,' he added.

The Post reported that the White House's plan involves revising a widely heralded 2015 executive order designed to give Obama the power to respond to cyber attacks focused on affecting the U.S. economy or its national security.

Hacking that Obama blames on Putin plumbed computers linked with Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, and plundered emails belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta (background, center)

Sanctions could include a freeze on money and other assets located in the United States, and a ban on targeted individuals from using America's banking system.

But that measure had no provision for pushing back against election interference via computer.

Obama has pledged to take some kind of retaliatory action, but Putin's government has denied involvement in the election-year hacking.

White House insiders want Obama to put the new rules in place as soon as possible so he can flex U.S. muscles before he leaves office.

The White House is also working to ensure that incoming president Donald Trump won't find it easy to reverse what it does in the Obama administration's final three weeks.

'Part of the goal here is to make sure that we have as much of the record public or communicated to Congress in a form that would be difficult to simply walk back,' an unnamed senior administration official told the Post.