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MOSCOW, Oct 23 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said connected Thursday that Russia would ne'er bow to unit from the United States oregon immoderate different country, and cautioned that the effect to immoderate strikes heavy into Russia would beryllium precise superior and overwhelming.
U.S. sanctions are an "unfriendly" enactment and "will person definite consequences, but they volition not importantly impact our economical well-being," Putin said. Russia's vigor assemblage feels confident, helium said.
"This is, of course, an effort to enactment unit connected Russia," Putin said. "But nary self-respecting state and nary self-respecting radical ever decides thing nether pressure."
Putin said breaking the equilibrium successful the planetary vigor markets could pb to a hike successful prices that would beryllium uncomfortable for countries specified arsenic the United States, particularly fixed the interior governmental calendar successful the United States.
Asked astir a Wall Street Journal study that the Trump medication has lifted a cardinal regularisation connected Ukraine's usage of immoderate long-range missiles provided by Western allies, and remarks by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy astir home missiles with a scope of 3,000 km (1,900 miles), Putin said: "This is an effort astatine escalation."
"But if specified weapons are utilized to onslaught Russian territory, the effect volition beryllium precise serious, if not overwhelming. Let them deliberation astir it," Putin said.
(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
