Russia has not lost anything because of the war in Ukraine and will not lose anything, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. According to him, the main thing that the country has acquired during the war is sovereignty.
“We haven't lost anything. And we won't lose anything. The main acquisition is the strengthening of our sovereignty. Yes, there is a certain polarization, but I believe that both in the world and within the country this is only beneficial. Because everything unnecessary, harmful and everything that prevents us from moving forward will be rejected, we will gain momentum, the pace of development, because modern development can only be based on sovereignty. All our steps in this direction are aimed at strengthening sovereignty. And the second and most important. I want to emphasize this again. It often sounds. We have not started anything in terms of military operations, but are only trying to finish.”
Earlier, the BBC Russian Service calculated , according to information from sources, that, as of September 2, 6,024 Russian soldiers were killed in the war in Ukraine. “An idea of how many deaths were not included in our selection of official reports is given by information from cemeteries. Every week, we discover new evidence of Russian military funerals in different localities in Russia, which are not reported by local authorities. Based on these observations, we can assume that the list of confirmed casualties maintained by the BBC may contain at least 40-60% fewer names of the dead than actually buried in Russia, ”the material said. In another investigation, the publication found that at least 900 Russian elite military specialists of special forces, marines and paratroopers, who spend millions of dollars on many years of training, were killed in the war in Ukraine.
In connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, other countries imposed various sanctions, large-scale large-scale restrictions on the financial system of Russia (including the Central Bank and major banks), the activities of a number of Russian companies and certain sectors of the economy, as well as the closure of airspace and seaports, personal sanctions against the leadership Russia, the largest entrepreneurs, and, in some cases, their family members. By March 7, 2022, Russia became the world leader in terms of the number of sanctions imposed, surpassing Iran. Economists note that many of these sanctions have a long-term effect and will affect the state of the Russian economy for a long time to come.