Putin mentioned the boomerang effect of sanctions against Russia

The efforts of The West The aim of isolating and punishing Russia has backfired for its creators – RT quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying on June 9.

Addressing a group of young businessmen in Moscow, Putin pointed out the economic consequences of the orders punish Russia to the countries that imposed them.

“If someone tries to restrain us in some way, they end up restraining themselves,” Putin told young entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists in Moscow ahead of the Business Forum. International Conference (SPIEF) coming up in St.Petersburg.

“For example, they restrict our fertilizer exports – the prices in their country are much higher than in Russia. They try to limit energy export ours, and the prices in their country skyrocketed. They even tried to use my name to label their inflation, but the reality is we have absolutely nothing to do with that!” – said Mr. Putin, seemingly referring to President Joe Biden’s statement that gas price The record in the US is “Putin’s rise”, although polls show that most Americans don’t think so.

“This is just the result of big mistakes that they themselves have made. And now they are trying to cover it up by blaming everything on Russia,” Putin added.

Putin has repeatedly pointed out that, if Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine is related to the economic disaster of the West, it is because the Russian sanctions imposed by the US and its allies have disrupted it. the supply of oil and gas, fertilizers and even grain to the West.

However, record inflation in the US and EU is due to their own policies, which have “nothing to do” with the conflict in Europe. Ukraine – the Russian leader said in an interview last week.

During a question-and-answer session on June 9, Putin also mentioned that many Western companies are leaving Russia, saying that this option is their loss. He said the exodus was due to “the internal status of these countries, and they cannot make sovereign decisions”.

“There’s no such thing as half-way. A country is either sovereign or colonial, whatever you choose to call it. But what if a country, or a group of countries, cannot make decisions about it? sovereignty, then to a certain extent it is already a colonial status, with no prospect of existing in the current geopolitical struggle,” Putin said.

After major European and American companies and investors left the Russian market, Moscow announced it would focus on developing the domestic industry, while strengthening partnerships with China, India and powers in the Middle East.

President Putin believes that Western economic sanctions against Russia are like an economic declaration of war, however, the Kremlin leader asserts that the Russian economy will remain open.