First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky. File photoUN, April 19 The Russian economy is successfully coping with the sanctions pressure imposed by Western countries, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said at a UN Security Council meeting. «The Russian economy, as you know, is under sanctions pressure copes successfully, finding new opportunities for its own development and new reliable partners in this whole situation,» Polyansky said. 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 Donbass. Western countries have imposed sanctions against the Russian Federation because of Ukraine. 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 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.
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