‘Ugly Trade Tactics’: Putin Takes Veiled Dig At US From BRICS Summit, Says Russia Hit With 30,000 Sanctions

“Sometimes competition is taking some ugly forms. This ugly form is something we see even at the State level, at the Government level,” Putin asserted. “Sometimes the measures resorted to are of physical nature, when pipelines are being destroyed, when attempts are undertaken to block international transport corridors to seize maritime vessels, illegal restrictions are applied and there is also the threat of so-called secondary sanctions against those who do not want to follow someone else’s interest and rather look after their own,” he remarked.