BREAKING NEWS – Moscow, Russia – Russian President Vladimir Putin underestimated the strength of the Ukrainian resistance as well as the harsh backlash from the United States and Western allies when he invaded Ukraine last month, experts tell Fox News.
The U.S. continued piling sanctions on Russia Tuesday, implementing a ban on oil imports from the country in what President Biden called “another powerful blow to Putin’s war machine.”
Companies started pulling out of Russia almost as soon as Putin invaded, both due to Western sanctions and to their disapproval of the war. Food giants Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Pepsi joined the withdrawal.
Putin responded in a written statement to all three companies.
“Your exit will have very little impact on this country,” he stated. “Because as long Russia still makes vodka, preschoolers as well as adults, will always have something relaxing to drink.”