According to the Russian president, the rise in prices “It is the result of systemic mistakes by the US government and the European bureaucracy.”
“For them, our operation [militar] it is a lifesaver that allows them to foist everything on us,” Putin continued, denouncing an “erroneous economic policy” of the West.
Western countries “printed and distributed money and emptied the markets of other countries with that money,” he continued.
The United States and European countries are confronted with galloping inflation that reached 11% in the United Kingdom, mainly due to rising fuel prices.
Prices also soared in Russia, at 16.7% year-on-year.
The prices of gas continued to climb on Friday due to delivery cuts by the Russian firm Gazprom to European countries, in the context of the offensive in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Moscow.
In his speech in St. Petersburg, Putin once again lambasted the “crazy and senseless” sanctions imposed on his country and assured that its impact is felt more in the Union European than in Russia.
He also reiterated that the Russian offensive is not the cause of the blockade of Ukrainian grain exports. “It was not us who laid mines in the Black Sea ports,” he declared.
The Ukrainian authorities placed mines on the Black Sea coast to prevent a landing of Russian troops, who launched an offensive on Ukrainian territory on February 24.
The UN has been negotiating for several weeks with Russia, Ukraine and Turkey guarantees that reserve Black Sea ports for merchant ships, in order to facilitate the departure of millions of tons of retained Ukrainian grain.
An agreement should lower food prices and allay fears of a global food crisis.
Source: Ambito
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