View of the Kremlin in Moscow. File photo SAN SALVADOR, Apr 2 Western sanctions against Russia are felt throughout the world and will lead to a global increase in poverty, writer Walter Raudales, leader of El Salvador's Left Movement MIS, told RIA Novosti.
&# 34;Sanctions of any kind, especially economic ones, are cruel, because they entail multiple consequences for entire nations: the sanctions of the ruling elites of the West against Russia will irreparably increase poverty in the world", said Raudales.
The interlocutor of the agency, who also heads the publication Independiente, pointed out that El Salvador and the entire region of Central America are already suffering from the impact of sanctions, which is expressed in rising prices for fuel and raw materials. «This hits the pockets, many families can no longer access basic food basket, eventually … become poorer and hungrier,” explained Raudales, the founder of a new civil movement in the political field of the country, which has become the leader of the left. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine 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 Donbas. .jpg» />There are many spectacles, bread is not enough. Are hunger riots threatening the worldIn response to the special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, Western countries have imposed multiple sanctions. A number of companies announced their withdrawal from the Russian market and the closure of production facilities in the country. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that Western companies that refuse to work with Russia did so under enormous pressure, but Russia will solve all the problems with the economy that the West creates for it. In early March, the European Union decided to disconnect seven Russian banks from the SWIFT system: these are VTB, Rossiya and Otkritie banks, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, Sovcombank, and the state corporation VEB.RF. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov estimated that Western countries, as part of sanctions over Ukraine, have frozen about half, or about $300 billion, of Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves. Vladimir Putin noted that the “collective West”, by freezing Russian assets, actually drew a line under the reliability of their currencies, crossed out their trust in them. is cancelled. The West is losing the basis of its power