The Russian president gave a speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (PMEF) after a delay of a hundred minutes.
In his speech, which was delayed due to the cyber attack, Putin said, according to the BBC, that the United States still "does not want to notice that there are other power centers in the world.
Western states still think according to the previous century and treat other countries as colonies”
- said the Russian president, adding that those nations that do not meet the tastes of Western countries will be "separated or destroyed".
Sanctions
According to Putin, the sanctions against Russia were stupid and ill-considered - from the point of view of the West. He put it this way: "Western states have failed to break Moscow."
The economic blitzkrieg against Russia was doomed from the start”
- he said, emphasizing that the sanctions negatively affected the countries that imposed them.
He explained: the European Union suffered an economic loss of 400 billion dollars as a result of the anti-Russian sanctions.
"The EU has finally eroded its own economic sovereignty. He dances to foreign music"
Putin said. According to the Russian president, with the sanctions, Europe will only further aggravate inflation, and thus the interests of European citizens will be "relegated to the background" by Western leaders.
Featured image: Vladimir Putin on February 21, 2022. Sputnik / Reuters
