«They took it seriously»: in Ukraine they accused the West of «economic sabotage»

MOSCOW, Feb 17 Ukraine, while these actions were in the nature of «economic sabotage», such an opinion was expressed in his column for the Glavred publication by the honored economist, ex-Minister of Economy of the country Viktor Suslov. As the expert noted, states with a market economy, including Ukraine, extremely vulnerable to information wars aimed at undermining the economy.The permanent representative to the EU denied the possibility of Russia's «invasion» of Ukraine»The peculiarity of the situation in Ukraine for several months now was that the information war to destabilize Ukraine was started and intensively waged by Western countries, NATO members, primarily the United States and Great Britain, — those whom the Ukrainian authorities call «our friends and partners». The essence of the war was to escalate the threat of Russia's «invasion» with the use of air and missile strikes, armored forces, occupation of Ukraine,» Suslov said. According to him, for Ukraine it had difficult economic and other destabilizing effects. The economist recalled the words of President Volodymyr Zelensky, who, in one of his video messages, announced the depreciation of the hryvnia and the “escape” of $12.5 billion of capital from the country during January. “That is, what the West did in relation to Ukraine was in the nature of economic sabotage aimed at undermining the Ukrainian economy,” he stressed. In addition, the expert expressed the opinion that investors and the withdrawn capital will not be able to return quickly, while they will most likely prefer to invest in countries that «are not subjected to such cruel experiments.» According to him, the Ukrainian economy has suffered and will continue to suffer heavy losses, but is stabilizing. «We have to live in a new world for us. Ukraine is taken seriously. The» big deal «between Russia and the United States (the collective West), which has been long awaited, according to all signs are close to completion, including at the expense of Ukraine,” he concluded. The West accuses Russia of escalating the situation around Ukraine. The Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry deny all accusations, emphasizing that Russia does not participate in the intra-Ukrainian conflict and does not violate any agreements, unlike Kiev, which refuses to comply with the Minsk agreements. troops to their places of deployment after the exercises. On Monday, President Vladimir Putin met with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. At a meeting with Putin, the head of the Defense Ministry reported that «some of the exercises are coming to an end, some will be completed in the near future.» The Southern and Western military districts have begun returning troops to their places of deployment, Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Tuesday. check?» Ukraine's economy is close to disaster