Putin: the crisis due to the pandemic has been replaced by a “sanctions fever”

The COVID-19 pandemic was not the last challenge for the economy; this crisis was replaced by the “sanctions fever” carried out by Western countries. This statement was made by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his speech at a plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum.

“The epidemic has been replaced by other global challenges that threaten the whole world. I mean the sanctions fever of the West,” Putin said. He stressed that in this way Western countries are trying to impose behavior patterns on other states and “subordinate them to their will.”