Russian President Vladimir Putin has said warrants assessed against Russia would rebound against the West, including in the form of advanced food and energy prices, and Moscow would break its problems and crop stronger.
Putin said there had been no volition to what Russia calls its “ special military operation” in Ukraine and that Russia wasn’t a country that could accept compromising its sovereignty for some kind of short-term profitable gain.
“ These warrants would have been assessed in any case,” Putin told a meeting of the Russian government on Thursday. “ There are some questions, problems, and difficulties but in history, we’ve overcome them and we will overcome them now.
“ In the end, this will each lead to an increase in our independence, tone- adequacy, and our sovereignty,” he told a televised government meeting two weeks after Russian forces raided neighboring Ukraine.
His commentary was designed to portray Western warrants as tone-defeating and assure Russians that the country can repel what Moscow is calling a “ profitable war” against its banks, businesses, and business oligarchs.
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Putin said Moscow – a major energy patron that supplies a third of Europe’s gas – would continue to meet its contractual scores indeed though it has been slammed with comprehensive warrants including a ban on United States purchases of its canvas.
“ They blazoned that they’re closing the import of Russian canvas to the American request. Prices there are high, affectation is unprecedentedly high, has reached major highs. They’re trying to condemn the results of their own miscalculations on us,” he said. “ We’ve absolutely nothing to do with it.”
Hitting back against the West, the Russian government said before that it had banned exports of telecom, medical, bus, agrarian, electrical, and tech outfit, among other particulars, until the end of 2022.
In total, over 200 particulars were included on the import suspense list, which also covered road buses, holders, turbines, and other goods.
Speaking calmly, Putin conceded that warrants assessed since the February 24 irruption were being felt.
“ It’s clear that at similar moments people’s demand for certain groups of goods always increases, but we’ve no doubt that we will break all these problems while working in a calm fashion,” he said.
“ Gradationally, people will acquaint themselves, they will understand that there are simply no events that we can not close off and break.”
Putin noted that Russia is a major patron of agrarian fertilizers, and said there would be ineluctable “ negative consequences” for world food requests if the West made problems for Russia.
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His husbandry minister reported at the meeting that the country’s food security was assured.
Speaking at the same meeting, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Russia had taken measures to limit the exodus of capital and that the country would service its external debts in roubles, not in bones.
“ Over the last two weeks Western countries have in substance waged a profitable and fiscal war against Russia,” he said.
Siluanov said the West had defaulted on its scores to Russia by indurating its gold and foreign currency reserves. It was trying to halt foreign trade, he said.
“ In these conditions, the precedence is for us to stabilize the situation in the fiscal system,” Siluanov said.
SOURCE: REUTERS
