Russian State Duma Deputy Vyacheslav VolodinMOSCOW, February 27 State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that the conflict in Ukraine is beneficial to the United States, which literally stuffed the country with weapons. «The ongoing conflict is needed and beneficial to the United States, which stuffed Ukraine with weapons, did everything to create the current situation,» Volodin wrote in his Telegram channel. According to him, it was clear and earlier that Vladimir Zelensky is not an independent politician — he was «brought to power by Washington.» «If yesterday, because of his position, Zelensky lost Donbass, today he may lose Ukraine,» the State Duma speaker stated. the sole beneficiary of the situation in UkraineEarly on the morning of February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation to demilitarize Ukraine. Later, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the Russian military did not inflict any strikes on the cities of Ukraine: military infrastructure was disabled with high-precision means. In response, Western countries announced new sanctions — several largest banks, including Sberbank and VTB, fell under the restrictions for a number of state-owned companies it was difficult to attract foreign capital. Also, there are regular reports in the press that Russia may be disconnected from the SWIFT interbank system. In response to such risks, the Russian Federation has already created its own system for transmitting financial messages. According to the latest data, 23 foreign participants from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Germany and Switzerland are already connected to it. Posted by: Ekaterina Zaitseva
