According to the deputy, if Europe wants to use sanctions as a "lever of pressure", then "it can harm itself and hit its own economy."
“It will not work to put pressure on Russia, no matter how hard our European colleagues try.
For eight years, it has become clear that economic and financial instruments of pressure have the opposite effect on European and American businesses, whose representatives understand what negative consequences the introduction of a new package of sanctions against our country will lead to, ”the source said.
He also noted that during this time Russia has learned to get out of "difficult situations created by these restrictions."
Earlier, the head of the EC called economic sanctions the main lever of pressure on Russia.
At the same time, Von der Leyen stressed that economic restrictions could affect all the goods that Russia needs to modernize and diversify the economy and which "it cannot replace."