On the campaign trail, in between slandering Mexicans and threatening to throw his political opponents in prison, Donald Trump spent a good deal of time lavishing praise on Russian president Vladimir Putin, repeatedly endorsing his leadership style and tweeting encouraging comments about his intellect. “If we have a good relationship with Russia, believe me, that's a good thing, not a bad thing,” he said in his first solo press conference as president. Unfortunately, he conceded, events had developed in such a way as to derail his dreams of a cozy Russo-American relationship. “I think Putin probably assumes that he can't make a deal with me anymore because politically it would be unpopular for a politician to make a deal,” he lamented, probably referring to the whole Russia-interfering-in-the-U.S.-election thing. Relations between the two countries have only “degraded” further since then, over Russia’s support for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, among other proxy conflicts across the Middle East.

On Thursday, the erstwhile Trump-Putin romance hit a new low when the U.S. Senate joined the House in approving a new set of economic sanctions on Russia, passing the measure with an overwhelming, veto-proof majority that essentially guarantees that Trump will sign the bill whenever it lands on his desk, despite the White House’s protestations that the president needs more flexibility to “pursue a more collaborative diplomacy” with Russia. And Russia, according to The New York Times, isn’t pleased:

Russia took its first steps on Friday to retaliate against proposed American sanctions for Moscow’s suspected meddling in the 2016 election, seizing two American diplomatic properties and ordering the United States Embassy to reduce staff by September. . . . It was not immediately clear how many American workers would have to leave, because the Kremlin’s announcement did not detail which employees were to be included in the count. There are hundreds of staff members in Russia, including workers constructing an embassy building in Moscow.

Beginning August 1, Russia will also start blocking access to a Moscow warehouse and a “bucolic site along the Moscow River where staff members walk their dogs and hold barbecues,” which just seems mean. In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the decision to expand sanctions “yet again attests to the extreme aggressiveness of the United States when it comes to international affairs.”