European countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia will have to compensate for the damage caused by them. This was announced on Wednesday, April 20, by the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.
"Firstly, sanctions against the Russian Federation are illegal. We will return to this topic later and calculate the damage that you have done to our economy. You will have to compensate him anyway. How and when is a matter of time," he wrote in his Telegram channel.
He also noted that European countries are not the only consumers of Russian energy resources and Russia has somewhere to redirect them.
"Especially since you are no partners. You are constantly stealing gas reserves, taking money from the country's budget, which means from our citizens. You emphasize that you will look for other suppliers in the future. Thus, you put an end to long—term relations," Volodin stressed.
The speaker added that Russia is adapted to challenges, and European countries are used to living carefree at the expense of the Russian Federation.
On April 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the main negative factor for the Russian economy was the sanctions pressure from the West. According to him, the calculation was to quickly shake up the financial and economic situation in the Russian Federation, provoke panic in the markets, collapse of the banking system and a large-scale shortage of goods in stores.
On April 8, the European Union adopted the fifth block of sanctions against Russia. In it, the EU imposed a ban on the transportation of goods by transport of Russia and Belarus, but restrictions do not apply to the transportation of medicines and food. The restrictions also provide for "freezing of assets of a number of Russian banks, a ban on the import of coal from Russia, an embargo on the supply of weapons to Russia, a ban on exports to Russia, in particular high-tech goods, worth € 10 billion."
On March 15, the European Union imposed a ban on new investments in the energy sector of the Russian Federation, peaceful atom and transportation of energy resources to the EU also fell under exceptions.
On March 10, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that Western countries had launched an economic war against Russia and were trying to create a shortage of goods. According to him, the government has taken measures to attract capital to the country. The key task of the Government remains to stabilize the financial system of the state and ensure its smooth operation.
Western countries imposed anti-Russian sanctions after Putin announced an operation to protect civilians in Donbass on February 24. Moscow explained that its tasks include demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. The decision was made against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region in mid-February due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
Watch more relevant videos and details about the situation in Donbass on the Izvestia TV channel.
