“The fact that they canceled the purchase of our toilets will cost them dearly. It seems to me that they would need them in today’s situation,” Putin said.
Trying to justify the Kremlin head’s mistake, TASS wrote that Putin was allegedly joking.
Before this, Russian resources complained that in the new, 19th, package of anti-Russian sanctions, the European Union banned the supply of toilets, bidets and other plumbing fixtures to the Russian Federation.
In 2022, the European Union banned the supply of toilets made of earthenware, porcelain and other non-plastic materials to the Russian Federation, as reported by The Telegraph. The publication noted that the “toilet war” could hit Russians “especially hard,” one in five of whom do not have running water in their homes.
The media also recalled that Russian occupiers, during the invasion of Ukraine, took toilets from Ukrainians’ homes and sent them home.
