He noted that the EU has already imposed fairly extensive sanctions against Russia, which “have weakened the Russian military machine, but it still exists.”

“The fighting is only intensifying, and we do not see the light at the end of the Ukrainian tunnel,” TASS quotes the politician.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov previously said that the West’s line to contain Russia is at its peak.

The Kremlin also reported that the United States and EU countries, introducing unprecedented sanctions against Russia, did not think at all about the boomerang effect, which is obvious.