“This is the result of the policy they are pursuing… The measures they took against us, the measures of the economic war, eventually affected them as well.
When someone wants to quarrel with someone, two sides usually suffer,” Bessonov said.
He added that such an increase, among other things, is associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
“And now this is all manifested in high, by the standards of European countries, growth rates of consumer prices,” the RT interlocutor concluded.
Earlier it became known that the growth in prices for food, tobacco and alcohol in the euro area in June reached a record high of 8.9%.
It is noted that the inflation rate in the euro area in June amounted to 8.6%.