His own answer was made by the Kremlin on Monday, arguing that no sanction will ever be able to force Russia to change the course of Ukraine. This response from Moscow comes a few hours after both the United States and the European Union have indicated that they are considering imposing additional sanctions.

The West has imposed thousands of different sanctions on Russia for the war that began in Ukraine in 2022 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014, in an attempt to sink Russia’s economy, which has undermined $ 2.2 trillion, and undermine the support of President Vladimir.

Putin argues that the Russian economy, which has been developed faster than the G7 countries and defied Western forecasts for collapse, has endured and ordered businesses and officials to defy sanctions in every way possible.

“No sanction will be able to force the Russian Federation to change the consistent position that our president has repeatedly spoken,” Peskov told Kremlin journalist Alexander United.

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he is ready to proceed with a second phase of sanctions in Russia.

The European Union’s preparation for the imposition of new sanctions on Russia is closely coordinated with the United States, EU Council President Antonio Costa said Monday.

Peskov said Europe and Ukraine are doing everything they can to attract the United States to their orbit.

He said that the Kremlin’s preference was to resolve the conflict by diplomatic means, but if that was impossible, then what Putin calls a “special military operation” would continue.

Russia’s war economy developed at a rate of 4.1% in 2023 and 4.3% in 2024, despite the multiple rounds of western sanctions imposed after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but the economy is slowly slowing down this year at the expense of high interest rates.