"The impact of sanctions was very serious and the consequences are still felt. Russia is part of Europe, and it is a natural market for Spanish producers of fruits and vegetables, because it is a perishable product," says Bosanko.

However, he admits: makers managed to find new markets — in particular Brazil and Canada. "However, it's not those markets that its volume could fully replace Russian. It had approximately 600 thousand tons of export, were the company focused primarily on the needs of the Russian market. We do not think that outside of Europe there is an alternative for size, variety, logistics development, comparable to him," says Bosanko.

According to him, the greatest damage was done to the fruit producers, because at the moment the imposition of sanctions in the midst of the harvest of stone fruit (peaches, nectarines) and "it all happened in one day, without warning." "The European Commission was forced to take immediate action. Of course, the bankruptcy, no one said, because the Russian market is still not the main income, besides efforts were made to shift to other markets, on the recommendation of the Ministry of agriculture fruits processed in the juices" — recalls Pozancos.

To call the amount of damage suffered by farmers, he could not.

There are no exact data on this account and from the Spanish authorities. In 2014, the Ministry of agriculture of Spain said the amount of at least 340 million euros. These were the data of the customs services on the supply of embargoed products (fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy products, fish) in 2013. Russia at the time accounted for 1.8% of total exports from Spain this product.

Hardest Russian embargo has hit producers of perishable products — fresh fruits and vegetables: nectarines (70 million euros), citrus (48 million euros), tomatoes (40 million), persimmon (16 million), pears (6.5 million), grapes (3 million), garnet (2 million) and plums (1.1 million). However, the real damage was higher: exports to Russia were made through third countries.

Russian Ambassador in Spain Yuri Korchagin, a figure of 700 million euros, which lost Spain the result of anti-Russian sanctions, and the countermeasures taken by Russia.