Sanctions prevent Moscow from retaining military capabilities -Germany’s Scholz
VILNIUS (Reuters) – Moscow won’t be able to retain its army capabilities on account of robust Western sanctions imposed on account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz mentioned on Tuesday.
“We have now far reaching sanctions now that can set again the Russian economic system by many years, which means it won’t be able to take part in international financial and technological progress,” Scholz advised reporters throughout a go to in Vilnius.
“We all know from reviews that which means Russia is not going to even be capable to retain its army capacities on the identical degree,” he mentioned, including Moscow had up to now abused imports of civilian items for army functions.
(Reporting by Andrius Sytas, Sabine Siebold and Rachel Extra; Enhancing by Miranda Murray)
