The Foreign Ministry said that Russia's high-tech industries will not be isolated

MOSCOW, Mar 9 Russia's high-tech industries will not be isolated due to sanctions, Moscow has partners all over the world who are interested in cooperation, Dmitry Birichevsky, director of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. in isolation — we had, have and still have partners around the world who are interested in joint mutually beneficial work in all, including in high-tech sectors of the economy,» the diplomat said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. In response, Western countries introduced new anti-Russian sanctions. In particular, several of the largest banks in the Russian Federation, including Sberbank and VTB, fell under them. The European Union, the USA, Canada and a number of other countries have closed the skies for Russian aircraft. A number of state-owned companies found it difficult to attract foreign capital. Sanctions have been introduced on the supply of high-tech products to Russia.