JUST IN: 🇷🇺 #Russian President #Putin on De-dollarization
"We're taking individual steps, one after another. As regards finance, we did not drop the dollar.
The dollar is the universal currency. But it wasn't us — we were banned and barred from using it.
And now 95% of all the external trade of #Russia is denominated in national currencies.
They did it themselves with their own hands. They thought we would collapse."
