(Cairo = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Sang-hoon = Faced with strong sanctions following the invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin strongly criticized the West.
The Kremlin said in a statement on the 28th (local time) that President Putin had called the West a “liar empire” during a meeting with high-ranking economic officials on the same day.
According to the minutes of the meeting, Putin said, “Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and I were discussing economic issues. As I once expressed in a speech, the West, the ‘republic of lies’, is putting sanctions on our country.”
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