Vladimir Putin assures that the West’s economic blitzkrieg strategy against Russia has failed
2022-04-18 15:19:27 / National Radio News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday his country had endured “unprecedented pressure” from Western sanctions.
Putin believed that these punitive measures were aimed at rapidly undermining Russia’s financial and economic situation, causing panic in the markets, the collapse of the banking system and a major shortage of products in stores.
But it can already be said that such a policy towards Russia has failed, according to Putin, who asserted that the economic strategy of “blitzkrieg” launched by the West had been thwarted.
The Russian President stressed that the sanctions would also have consequences for those who enforced them, citing the rise in inflation and unemployment, the deterioration in economic momentum in the United States and the European Union, the drop in European living standards and the depreciation of their savings.
Putin reiterated that Russia was able to cope with the measures aimed at him and assured that the economic situation in the country is stabilizing, while the exchange rate of the national currency, the ruble, is returning to the level of the first half of February is determined by an objectively strong balance of payments.
The Kremlin leader highlighted the results of the first quarter, with the positive current account balance of payments exceeding $ 58 billion, representing a historic maximum.
Meanwhile, Presidential Spokesman Dimitri Peskov said in his daily press briefing that the Russian government will formulate the response to Western sanctions and that it will be designed to better serve the country’s interests.
Regarding the negotiations with Ukraine, Peskov reported that Kyiv does not show any records of the agreements reached in the negotiations with Russia.
Peskov commented that the approach of President Vladimir Zelenskyy’s government changes frequently, so the dynamics of progress in the dialogue process leaves much to be desired, but contacts at expert level between the two countries continue.
However, the Kremlin spokesman warned about Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and reminded President Vladimir Putin of this, declaring that the campaign was being carried out according to plan.
The Russian Aerospace Force has bombed 16 Ukrainian military targets in the past 24 hours, including five command centers, a fuel depot and three arsenals, the Defense Ministry said.
His spokesman, Major General Igor Konashénkov, said at a press conference that military equipment belonging to the Ukrainian army had also been destroyed in various places.
In addition, Russian anti-aircraft defenses shot down two fighter jets in Kharkov province and a third in the city of Avdéevka, as well as 11 Ukrainian drones.
For his part, Colonel-General Mijaíl Mízintsev of the Ministry of Defense condemned the Ukrainian troops, who had completed the planning of cruel assembly actions with several victims, which would take place in several provinces of this country on the night of April 23-24, the Orthodox Holy Saturday.
Mízintsev revealed that the nationalist battalions have formed more than 70 mobile groups that will travel in vans and SUVs equipped with grenade launchers, and their mission is to attack churches on the Easter Vigil of April 23-24, and then the Russian military massive murders to accuse this holy festival for the faithful.
The head of the Defense Management Center warned that the provocations of Volodimir Zelenski’s government were carried out with the support of several Western countries, whose media should amplify the false news.
The senior Russian military chief warned the United States and other countries around him that Moscow has compelling evidence of the crimes the Ukrainian regime planned during Easter Vigil, or the Fair of Glory.
Colonel General Mijaíl Mízintsev also called on the United Nations, the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe, the International Red Cross and other organizations to influence President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to prevent these inhumane provocations, which violate the norms of morality and the violate international humanitarian law.