He spoke about this in an interview with CNBC on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, TASS reports.

According to him, the European economy suffers from sanctions more than the Russian one.

“The Russian economy is certainly not on its knees.

We can judge how bad their economy is doing differently, but they are not on their knees, and the war is not coming to an end.

And the European economy suffers more from sanctions than the Russian one,” the diplomat said.

Earlier in the analytical material for The Washington Post it was already said that the scale of the consequences of sanctions against Russia may be less than expected.