Putin: Russian economy to overcome ‘reckless’ sanctions

IRINA TITOVA and JIM HEINTZ, AP News

Jun 17, 2022

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said at Russia’s showpiece investment conference Friday that the country’s economy will overcome “reckless and insane” sanctions, while condemning the United States for acting like “God’s own messengers on planet Earth.”

Putin said trying to damage the Russian economy “didn’t work.”

“Russian enterprises and government authorities worked in a composed and professional manner,” he said. “We’re normalizing the economic situation. We stabilized the financial markets, the banking system, the trade system.”