According to her, we must make Russia understand without war that it will have a moral, political, financial price to pay.

“What is happening today in terms of sanctions I will not differ from the stance that the international community has as a whole. The sanctions are the answer when you are a democratic country and do not answer war by war. It may be perceived by someone as a weakness of democracy, but that is how democracy works.

I think the sanctions that have been imposed now probably are more symbolic than anything else. Because I’m not sure that there are many American investors that are ready to go to Donetsk or Lugansk. But it’s a signal that probably the sanctions are going to be something of a different kind than what we have seen before.

The lesson to be learned from the past, from 2008 in the case of Georgia, 2014 in the case of Ukraine, is that our Western partners did not use all the possibilities they had at that time. The cost to Russia was not much to deter it from doing it again,” Zourabichvili stated.

President declared that sanctions brought results in some cases and Western countries have such experience.