“Looking at the BRICS summit, one can clearly see that ‘isolation’ of Russia exists only in the dreams of our former Western partners,” he wrote on Twitter.

Die Welt previously noted that the West's strategy to isolate Russia and its President Vladimir Putin did not work.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview with Anadolu that Ankara intends to adhere to a principled position on the issue of sanctions against Russia, despite the fact that the West and the international community have questions about Turkey not joining the sanctions policy.