The volume of Russian imports returned to 2020 values. It has been reported Bloomberg He’s talking about a high-ranking European diplomat.
Russian imports as a whole have largely returned to pre-war 2020 levels.
According to the diplomat, the Russian Federation is successfully coping with the sanctions pressure from Western countries, including restrictions on security, semiconductors and other technologies necessary to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine.
The material says analysis of trade data shows that advanced chips and integrated circuits manufactured in Europe are shipped to Russia via third countries such as Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kazakhstan.
“EU and G7 countries have launched various sanctions to weaken Russia, but <…> The actual impact in some areas has yet to match what the authorities hoped for,” he says on the air.
Despite the pressure from Russia and the EU before, restored increased its export level to 2020 figures.