Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev pointed out that “the European Commission adopted the sixth package of sanctions in order to tear the Russian economy to shreds, but it is clear that the goal is not Russia, but rather to provoke a global revolution in the economy.”

Medvedev pointed out that “it will not be easy to abandon Russian oil,” explaining that “Europeans will have to look for raw materials of the same quality in the world.”

And the United States, the European Union and other countries have imposed several packages of unprecedented sanctions against Russia due to its military operations in Ukraine, as these sanctions affected the financial and economic sector and included a ban on transactions through SWIFT. the system of international banking operations. And the freezing of the assets of the Russian Central Bank in Western countries, as well as the closure of airspace for Russian aircraft, in addition to attempts to find alternatives to Russian energy and gas resources.