MOSCOW (Dispatches) - The culpability for the global consequences of sanctions against Russia, including possible hunger in a number of countries, rests with Western countries who for the sake of their domination are ready to sacrifice the rest of the world, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on economic issues on Thursday.
He noted that a number of countries are already encountering the threats of hunger and if the sanctions against Russia continue, the EU may also encounter consequences which would be difficult to reverse, TASS reported.
“The blame for this entirely and completely rests with the elites of the Western countries who for the sake of preserving their global domination are ready to sacrifice the rest of the world,” the Russian leader stated.
In turn, Russia is confidently coping with external challenges, he added, thanks both to the responsible macroeconomic policy of recent years and systemic solutions on bolstering the economic sovereignty and technological and food security.
“Our production companies are gradually filling in domestic market niches freed up after unscrupulous partners left, including basic goods, industrial and service equipment, construction and agricultural machinery,” the Russian leader continued.
Moscow has repeatedly condemned the U.S. and its NATO allies for delivering arms to Ukraine, insisting that the inflow of supplies will only prolong the conflict.
Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev foresees a number of crises and conflicts as a result of the anti-Russian sanctions and the failed concept of a “U.S.-centric world”.
On Friday, the former president took to his Telegram channel to write about the repercussions of the sanctions against Russia, which he believes will stoke energy, logistics and food quagmires, and trigger other global crises.
“As a result, a new security architecture will be created which will recognize the new reality first de facto and then also de jure: a) the weakness of the Westernized concepts of international relations along the lines of the “rules-based order” and other meaningless Western junk; b) the collapse of the idea of a U.S.-centric world; c) the presence of interests respected by the global community of those countries that are in a critical stage of disagreement with the Western world,” he wrote.
EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell announced on Friday that the bloc will offer another €500 million ($520 million) in military aid to Ukraine.
Speaking on his way to the meeting of G7 foreign affairs ministers in Weissenhaus, Germany, Borrell said he will announce that the European Union provides “a new tranche of €500 million military support to Ukraine.”
The new addition will bring the bloc’s contribution to $2 billion ($2.08 billion) in total.
On Friday Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the EU has turned into an aggressive player in the international arena,
According to the diplomat, the EU countries are “rushing exactly along the tracks that NATO is already laying, thereby confirming the trend that they are merging with NATO and will, in fact, perform the functions of its appendage”, RIA Novosti reported.