Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the economic war that the West is waging against Russia and Belarus will not interfere with the integration processes in the Eurasian Economic Union. The Eurasian Union is an economic union between the countries of Central and North Asia and Eastern Europe, which includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.

The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed the first treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union on May 29, 2014, later joined by Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, and the treaty entered into force in early January 2015. For USD 5 trillion, the Eurasian Economic Union encourages the free movement of goods and services between its countries and provides a unified policy in the field of macroeconomics, transport, industry, agriculture, energy, foreign trade, investment, customs, technical regulation, competition and antitrust regulation . The member countries of the union are striving for the unification of the currency and further integration in the future.