MEP calls anti-Russian sanctions suicide for the West

Western sanctions against Russia are suicide in the long term, MEP Lubos Blaga said in an interview with Izvestia on October 14.

In the long term, we are committing suicide, economic suicide, because the sanctions against Russia, as I see it in Moscow , do not hurt your country – they hurt our countries, because we have reduced the energy supplies from your country, which were cheaper and better,” he said.

Blaga confirmed that the German economy is shrinking and economic growth is declining. While in Russia, economic growth is more than 3%.

At the moment, there is a strong majority that is very Russophobic and militant. We have a different situation in Slovakia: my party won the elections – the Social Democratic Party, which is against the war, so I think that if we can change, then the European Union can change too,” the Slovak MEP added.

Blaga arrived in Moscow on October 13 to, as he himself said, apologize for Russophobia in the West. He published a video message filmed on Red Square and elsewhere in the capital, and laid flowers at the monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

 

Western countries have increased sanctions pressure on Russia in connection with the special operation to protect Donbass . The decision to launch it was announced on February 24, 2022, amid the worsening situation in the region.