Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said that Western sanctions against Russia have failed to hit the Russian economy or reach a settlement to the Ukrainian crisis, contrary to the expectations of the European Union.
He added in an interview with the Russian "Novosti" agency: "We need to discuss the extent of the impact of the sanctions on Russia, and who will harm us or Moscow the most, and whether they have any meaning, and whether they have achieved any practical results on the ground and achieved their goals, specifically the goal of subjugating Russia economically." To reach a settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.
He continued: "Did we succeed in that or not? Personally, I do not think so, and it is clear that it did not succeed."
The European Union has stopped examining this issue at the present time, and concluded that “as soon as the issue of sanctions against Russia is raised by any country, it is pushed into a corner and humiliated.”
After the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, Western countries announced the freezing of Russian assets , and imposed all the sanctions and restrictions they could on dealing with Russia to no avail.
Putin described the policy of containing and weakening Russia as a long-term strategy for the West, noting that the sanctions dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy.
Moscow: The West did not find any evidence that Russia violated sanctions against North Korea
Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador for Special Duties Oleg Burmistrov indicated that the West closely followed the visit of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to Russia in search of Moscow's violation of sanctions on Pyongyang.
Burmistrov said in an interview with the "Novosti" agency: "It seems that the visit of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to Russia was a surprise for the West. His trip to the Russian Far East was put under a magnifying glass in order to search for Russia's possible violation of sanctions. But, as we see, "Our opponents have found no evidence of this."
Last September, Kim Jong Un visited Russia for the first time since 2019 and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 13 at the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Kim visited the Gagarin Aviation Factory in the city of Komsomolsk on the Amur River in the Russian Far East, and learned about the civilian Superjet 100 aircraft, attended a test flight of the fifth-generation Russian Su-35 fighter, and also visited a number of military factories in the region.
34 children return from refugee camps in Syria to Russia
The press office of Russia's Commissioner for Children's Rights, Maria Lvova Belova, reported that 34 children had been returned to Russia from refugee camps in Syria.
A statement issued by the office said: “With the help of the Russian Commissioner for Child Rights, Maria Lvova Belova, children who were living in refugee camps in northeastern Syria returned to their homeland.”
The statement added that a Russian military plane landed on the night of October 15 at Chkalovsky Airport on the outskirts of Moscow, carrying the aforementioned children.
He pointed out that the children range in age from 4 to 16 years, and some of them were born in Syrian territory.
He stated that since 2018, 513 children have been returned from the Middle East.
Last July, Lvova Belova announced that it plans to return 200 children from refugee camps in Syria.