Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Laporte, I'll try to make you happy and make me happy at the same time: We're going to mix up the Indo-Pacific and the Euro-Atlantic. I imagine you'll answer me, but if Mr. Ritchie has anything to add, he should feel free to do so.
The famous sanctions against Russia are clearly necessary. That's the only thing we can do when such an attack is carried out. That goes without saying. However, on the one hand, we see the European Union's energy dependence. On the other hand, we also see that India has started buying Russian gas and oil and reselling them as its own. The European Union is well aware of this, but it thinks that, as a matter of principle, it is buying it from India and not from Russia. Ultimately, since India also makes a profit, the cost to the European Union is higher, and the origin is the same. Everyone, aside from Europe, is happy, and absolutely nothing has changed for Russia.
Because of the sanctions, China has also literally taken over the Russian economy. It has strengthened the geopolitical and geostrategic bloc called BRICS, in that region, and, in terms of security, it has strengthened the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. That is what we have seen. If I'm not mistaken, the yuan is now the number one foreign currency in Russia. You must have noted this.
Is that seen as a grey area when it comes to sanctions? How is that being dealt with?