MOSCOW, February 19 There will be Western sanctions against Russia, but they no longer scare anyone, said State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. «Firstly, they do not scare anyone — we have been living in such conditions for 8 years. Yes, this creates problems, it is better to cooperate and develop relations than to conflict. But it was not our choice to introduce restrictions,» — Volodin wrote in his Telegram channel. Secondly, the parliamentarian noted, everyone came to understand: “there will be sanctions against Russia anyway.” “It doesn’t matter whether we did something or not, we will do it or not: Washington and Brussels will always they will figure out what to accuse us of,” he added. The speaker of the State Duma also recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about this yesterday at a press conference after a meeting with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko. «The reason is one thing — they want to stop the development of our country. We must not allow this,» he specified. On Thursday, the situation in Donbass escalated, the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics announced dozens of attacks by Ukrainian security forces. The leadership of the DPR and LPR announced the temporary evacuation of citizens to the Rostov region in connection with the threat of Ukraine's invasion. First of all, it concerns women, children and the elderly. v. RussiaPosted by: Daria Buimova
