Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Vershinin noted that “the partners’ attempt to shift the blame on others and create a spiral of unilateral sanctions against Russia will end, even according to the International Monetary Fund itself, with an inflationary crisis in the Western countries themselves, even worse, it will cause an inevitable global recession. “.

Vershinin explained that “the mistakes made during the coronavirus pandemic in the macroeconomic, food and energy policies of the economies of the largest Western countries exacerbated the turmoil in world commodity markets long before the start of the Russian military operation.”

It is noteworthy that Western countries, led by the United States and Great Britain, imposed unprecedented sanctions against Moscow against the background of the military operation launched by Russia on February 24 in Ukraine. the SWIFT system for international banking operations, the freezing of assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in Western countries, as well as the closure of the sky for Russian aircraft.