German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the West will agree to more sanctions in the coming days as carnage by Russian forces, including corpses in the street and a mass grave, draws global condemnation
Natalia Zinets
Russia’s economy is facing the gravest crisis since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union after the US and its allies imposed crippling sanctions due to Putin’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine. German defence minister Christine Lambrecht said the EU should talk about ending Russian gas imports. Largely cut off from the West’s economies, Russia is facing the biggest economic contraction for decades while prices are rising. Putin said that the West understands nothing about Russia if it thinks Russians will give in to sanctions.
Russia, which has supplied gas to Europe since the 1970s, would be deprived of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign currency earnings. It would likely toughen its response to the “economic war” of the West.
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