The strengthening of the ruble on the international market and the transition to import substitution will help protect Russia from external threats from Western countries.

Ukraine lives off loans from the West and is actually its colony, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on her Telegram channel.

Moscow and Minsk are discussing various options for interaction on the topic of import substitution, in particular financial, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that at the moment the Kremlin does not see a trend associated with the alleged departure of dollar millionaires from the Russian Federation.

The former deputy head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Natalia Poklonskaya, announced on her Telegram channel that she was appointed to the post of adviser to the Prosecutor General of Russia, Igor Krasnov.