War in Ukraine, live: Vladimir Putin says “the West’s sanctions fever” cannot reach Russia – Le Monde

Putin believes that the sanctions represent “a danger for the whole world” and that it is “impossible to isolate Russia” “Irreversible changes have occurred in the entire system of international relations”, Vladimir Putin declared during an Asian-oriented economic forum in Vladivostok. SERGEI BOBYLYOV / AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Western sanctions targeting his country represented “a danger for the whole world” and demonstrated a lack of vision. In a speech at an Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia’s southeastern Pacific coast, Vladimir Putin said the West had undermined the global economy through its “aggressive” attempts to to impose its domination on the world, without succeeding in stopping the rise of the Asia-Pacific region. “No matter how much some would like to isolate Russia, it is impossible to do so,” Putin said. The Covid-19 pandemic “has been replaced by new global challenges, which threaten the whole world. I mean the sanctions fever of the West,” he added. The Russian president denounced “the stubborn refusal of Western elites to see the facts” and “the domination of the United States” in the implementation of heavy sanctions against Russia following the offensive carried out in Ukraine since the end from February. “Irreversible changes have taken place throughout the system of international relations,” he noted. Despite a barrage of Western sanctions, Mr Putin maintained that Russia “has lost nothing and will not lose anything”. “There is some polarization going on, but I think it will only be beneficial,” he added. In front of many Asian economic and political leaders, particularly Chinese, he also hailed “the growing role” of the Asia-Pacific region in world affairs, in contrast to a West that he depicted as on the decline. , undermined in particular by “inflation”. Faced with “the technological, financial and economic aggression of the West”, the Russian president said he was delighted with the “little by little distance” vis-à-vis the Russian economy from the dollar, the euro and the pound sterling, “unreliable currencies”, particularly in favor of the Chinese yuan.