Moscow knows how to do, despite the sanctions. Russia learned to immunize against the sanctions related to war in Ukraine, said Kremlin on Wednesday, added that Moscow continued to monitor the statements of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, on this issue.
Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States would begin to impose customs duties and other measures on Russia in ten days if Moscow showed no progress towards the end of the war in Ukraine, which has lasted almost three and a half years.
“Consequently, of course, we have already developed a certain immunity in this regard, and we continue to take note of all the statements that come from President Trump and other international representatives on this issue.”
+122% for strategic products
The spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry of Russia, Maria Zakharova, described the threat of new “routine” sanctions and declared that it was strange that the United States and the West would not have not understood that such measures did not operate and only damaged Western economies.
“We find that the West cannot ignore the issue of sanctions. It seems that they are constantly trapped in a routine,” he said during an informative press session in Moscow.
Russia has managed to avoid a large part of the sanctions, thanks to satellite countries, such as Kazakhstan, for example, or reinforced relations with China, which has greatly increased its exports to Moscow.
But these derivations have a cost: strategic products have seen their price by 122% for Moscow from the beginning of the war, according to Economist’s calculations. The freezing of Russian assets, almost 200 billion dollars in liquidity that belong in particular to the Central Bank, is also harmful to the country, deprived of currencies.
Source: BFM TV
