Kremlin claims the United States is waging an "economic war" with Russia

Kremlin claims the United States is waging an “economic war” with Russia. 

After US President Joe Biden stopped Russia’s oil and other energy imports, the Kremlin said the United States had started an “economic war” on Russia. Moscow said it would think carefully about what to do after Biden did this.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, said that Russia has been, is, and always will be a reliable energy supplier. He said that energy flows were still going on. 

Peskov: “But you can see the bacchanalia, the hostile bacchanalia that the West has grown, and that, of course, makes the situation very difficult and makes us think very hard.”

It’s clear that the United States has declared war on Russia’s economy and is fighting this war, he told us.

President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that the United States would no longer import Russian oil, gas, and energy. 

The administration’s most wide-ranging move is yet to punish Russia for taking over Ukraine.

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“We’re not going to buy any Russian oil, gas, or energy. That means that Russian oil will no longer be allowed at US ports, and the American people will deal Vladimir Putin another powerful blow. 

Biden said this in an address from the White House, adding that the decision was made “in close consultation” with the Russian government “With friends.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine thanked Western countries for taking action against Russia. 

Still, he also said that NATO had not agreed to a no-fly zone over Ukraine, as he had asked.

Meanwhile, Russia said on Wednesday that it is talking with people in Ukraine about how to end the ongoing conflict there. It also said that its troops were “not working to overthrow the Ukrainian government.”

It looks like “some progress” has been made in three rounds of talks with Kyiv, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a press briefing. 

She was referring to the talks. She told Maria Zakharova that the Russian military had not been asked to “overthrow” the government.

Press briefing: Zakharova told them that Russia’s military operation was going exactly as planned. “Russia will achieve its goal of making sure that Ukraine is neutral, but it would prefer to do that through talks.” This is what they said.