President Vladimir Putin said at the Russian Showpiece Investment Conference on Friday that the country’s economy would overcome sanctions that were “careless and crazy”, while cursing the United States for acting like “God’s own envoy on Planet Earth.”Putin started his speech at the International Economic Forum of St. Petersburg with a long complaint of the countries he followed wanted to weaken Russia, including the United States.
He said the US “declared victory in the Cold War and then regarded themselves as God’s own messenger on Planet Earth.”Russia is under various sanctions after sending troops to Ukraine in February. Hundreds of foreign companies also suspended operations in Russia or pulled out of the country completely.
Putin said trying to damage the Russian economy “unsuccessful.””Russian companies and government authority work in a calm and professional way,” he said. “We normalize the economic situation. We stabilize the financial markets, the banking system, the trade system.”The inflation rate projected by Russia has dropped slightly, but the projected annual level at this time of 16.7% is still too high, he said.Putin also strongly defended his country’s actions in Ukraine. Russia has argued that his neighbors were a threat because of his desire to join the NATO military alliance.
“In the current situation, with a background of risks and threats soaring, Russian decision to carry out special military operations is forced,” said the Russian leader. “It is very difficult to make it, but it is forced and necessary. It is a decision by a sovereign state that has unconditional rights, based on the US Charter, to maintain its safety.”
Putin predicted Russia’s success in Ukraine after more than 16 weeks of battle.”All goals of special military operations will definitely be achieved,” he said. “This has been determined previously by the courage and heroism of our fighters, the consolidation of Russian society, whose support provides strength and confidence to the Russian army and navy, which is in -depth understanding of the historical truth and justice of our goals.”
Russia also “will receive any choice” the Republic of Donetsk and Luhanansk People in the Donbas region in East Ukraine made their future, Putin said. There is a consistent speculation that the separatist area will vote to join Russia, similar to when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. The separatist leaders of the two fields have expressed the desire for such a referendum.
Russia recognizes the two regions as independent countries a few days before sending troops to Ukraine, a step that has not been repeated allies. President Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who sat on stage with Putin at the St. Forum Petersburg on Friday said that the Central Asian country was impossible to do so and referred to the Republics that proclaimed themselves as “quasi-state territory.”The battle in Ukraine has caused concern about the global food crisis because it has disrupted food exports, especially seeds.
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Putin said Russia could “significantly increase food and fertilizer exports” but expressed concern that Ukraine could use the income from exports to pay the weapons he had received from other countries.
