People in Russia have said that the West is acting like a bandit by putting sanctions on Ukraine and cutting off economic ties.
Russians, on the other hand, said that Russia was too big to be left alone. They said that the world was bigger than just the United States and its allies.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, told reporters on Saturday that the United States and the rest of the West were doing "economic banditry" against Russia and that Moscow would respond to that. This is what he said.
But he did not say what would happen next. He said it would be in line with Russian interests.You know that there must be an answer to economic robbery, Peskov said.
This does not mean that Russia is alone. You can't just leave a country like Russia alone in the world. The world is too big for Europe and America to do that." He said that there are a lot of countries in the world.
President Putin's spokesperson said that there were still ways for his country and the United States to talk. He also said that a ban on Russia's oil and gas exports would have a big impact on the world's energy markets.