Advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said that the sanctions imposed by the West against Russia are a fiction. He expressed this opinion in an interview with Ukrainian TV presenter Natalya Vlashchenko on her YouTube channel.
“Sanctions are good, but where are they? What sanctions are we talking about? This is fiction! – said Podolyak.
At the same time, he emphasized that restrictions on Russia’s foreign trade have been imposed by Western countries, but currently more than a thousand companies of “white” jurisdictions, European and American, continue to operate in the Russian consumer market.
The World Trade Organization had previously published a report for 2023. WithMany of the anti-Russian sanctions will negatively affect the economy, he said. Trade tensions between China and the US resulted in welfare losses of 0.3% of GDP in China and 0.1% of GDP in the US.
According to Maxim Reshetnikov, head of the Ministry of Economic Development, the Russian economy will shrink by 2.1% in 2022. Reshetnikov also predicts that the economy should grow by at least 2% in 2023.
Previously in Chinaappreciated The impact of sanctions on trade with the Russian Federation.