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and november as the goods russia was able to buy or import dried up. but countries were still buying its oil and gas. so how will the sanctions play out as we come up to the start of 2023? well, i caught up with the global forecasting director at the economist intelligence unit and the author of a new book about us sanctions called backfire. agata demarais, a real pleasure having you on the show. and agata, let s start with this. let s go back to well, earlier this year and perhaps for the uninitiated, can you explain what the original, the main aims of these sanctions were? i would say there are three main objectives for sanctions. the first one is to send a diplomatic message of unity and resolve to russia. and i think that this came out very, very clearly from western countries. they re standing with ukraine and imposing sanctions on russia with a lot of unity and cohesion. the second objective is to weigh on russia s ability to wage war in ukraine, both from the economic
deeply unhappy about the no fly zone he had requested and the fact it will not be imposed over ukrainian airspace. in another of his statements he s praised ukrainian civilians for putting up resistance in areas captured by the russian troops and called on others to defend their cities alongside the military. we have no days off any more, doesn t matter what your watch or clock shows, what your calendar shows. to the victory, forwards. i have spoken with the president of france, macron, and the president of poland, andrzej duda. our contacts are daily, constant. i m grateful to all of them. i m extremely grateful to andrzej for his dedication to our common goal, protecting people. thankful to andrzej s wife, agata. those friends whom i sincerely believe to be friends. we have managed to prevent a humanitarian crisis along the border. we ve managed to organise the situation in such