At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out at Western sanctions. He criticized the US for imposing more than 30,000 sanctions on Russia, double the level of sanctions imposed on other countries in the world, and said that this was happening at the government level. He said that actions such as the destruction of gas pipelines and the closure of transport routes were being taken, but Putin expressed confidence that Russia had successfully reversed the impact of these sanctions and that the economic growth rate was better than the world average.