Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a statement which says that the economic sanctions levelled against his country are equivalent to declaring a war.
The comments were made during a meeting with female flight attendants, with the president saying that the sanctions are methods of fighting against Russia.
‘These sanctions that you can see are equivalent to declaring a war – but thankfully it has not come to an actual war but we understand what these threats are about.’
The president also publicly warned NATO against implementing a no-fly zone over Ukraine, claiming that Russia would view any such move as participation in the armed conflicting. NATO formally rejected the decision yesterday.
The comments by Putin come after Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov accused the west of ‘economic banditry’, pledging that his country would respond to the sanctions which have served to cut Russia off from the western world.
‘The world is too big for Europe and America to isolate a country, and even more so a country as big as Russia. There are many more countries in the world’ he said.
As of yet, Putin does not seem keen on retreating his troops out of Ukraine, saying that his plans to demilitarise and ‘denazify’ Ukraine will be successful. He said that the special operation was continuing according to plan, despite several reports indicating that Russian forces were behind schedule and struggling.
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