He said this in an interview with RTVI.

The diplomat stressed that Russia does not feel isolated.

“We, on the contrary, feel that the West is now isolated, because with their blinkered, so to speak, approaches and lack of any flexibility, they are pushing away the states of the global South,” Polyansky noted.

Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that the goals set by Russia’s ill-wishers in terms of its isolation had fallen apart.

As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted, the number of Vladimir Putin’s foreign contacts demonstrates that the West’s attempts to isolate the country have failed.