The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has described sanctions against his country as ‘reckless’ and ‘insane’ during an address at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. Putin said the sanctions regime against Russia. was intended to destroy the country’s economy, but that the plan had ‘failed’

Putin calls Ukraine war sanctions ‘insane’ in combative speech https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/17/vladimir-putin-speech-russia-ukraine-war-sanctions