SEOUL, February 26. /TASS/. The US sanctions have not undermined the Russian economy, which continues to develop thanks to the country’s natural resources and scientific potential, the Western pressure will not make the Russian government change its course, Ro Ju Hyon, an international affairs analyst, wrote in and article published by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The journalist noted that since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the United States has imposed several thousand sanctions against Russia and that there is actually nothing new in the new restrictions announced in connection with the second anniversary of the special military operation.
"But the fact shows that the U.S. remains unchanged in its sinister intention to bring a strategic defeat to Russia at any cost even by brandishing the worn-out sanctions stick when the puppet clique of Zelenskiy has been put into disadvantage at battlefields," he believes.
"Far from the U.S. intention, Russia's economy is growing in a diversified way on the basis of its rich natural resources and scientific and technological potentials. Meanwhile, in Western countries the people's living has been severely hit and a loss of 1.5 trillion U.S. dollars was reportedly caused as their economic ties with Russia have been cut off," the journalist noted.
"Experts on international affairs have commented that the U.S. and the West are sawing off the branches supporting them as they took unilateral sanctions against Russia," he added.
"The dark future of the U.S. was mortgaged by sanctions and pressure on sovereign states," he believes.
"The U.S. has imposed the biggest sanctions against Russia unprecedented in history, but it can never break the line of independence of the Russian government and the strong will of the army and people of Russia to resist the imperialists," the observer concluded.
On February 23, the US Treasury Department published a list of new anti-Russia sanctions targeting individuals and entities from Russia and other countries. The blacklist consists of 554 targets, including 57 individuals and 485 legal entities, as well as 12 courts. In addition to Russian entities, the sanctions affect companies from such countries as Kyrgyzstan, China, the UAE, Serbia, Turkey, Germany and more. The Canadian authorities also imposed new restrictions against Moscow.
Moreover, the EU Council said on the same day that the European Union had approved the 13th package of sanctions against Russia, introducing restrictive measures against 106 individuals and 88 legal entities, including such countries as China, India, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, and Turkey.