Russia’s President Putin has used his speech at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum to claim sanctions are more harmful to the countries who impose them.
He said the European Union could lose more than $400 billion (£326bn) because of sanctions on Russia.
Putin also claimed that the EU has lost its "political sovereignty" in its response to the war in Ukraine.
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