Lavrov admitted for the first time how much Moscow damaged sanctions

This is the first time a senior Russian official has admitted they were not ready for a Western response.

When the central bank reserves freeze, no one who predicted what sanctions the West would impose could not have predicted. It is pure theft, “said Lavrov students at the State Institute of International Relations in Moscow, the Financial Times reports.

We remember, the ruble fell to the lowest record levels after Western countries froze $300 billion from Russia's $664 billion currency reserves, preventing Russia's central bank from placing <x0-second of war” to reduce the impact of sanctions and allow the state to function normally.