MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. EU bureaucrats are too blind and are unable to grasp the scale of the reaction in European countries caused by their misguided decisions, said Kirill Dmitriev (pictured above), Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Investment and Economic Cooperation with Foreign Countries and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)

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“No kidding — exactly as predicted, and exactly what EU bureaucrats initially denied, too blind to grasp the scale of the shock their own bad decisions would unleash on Europe,” he wrote on X .

Dmitriev was commenting on a Bloomberg report stating that the cumulative effect of the conflict in the Middle East is expected to begin manifesting as early as next week.

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