/ world today news/ The United States should expect consequences in case of seizure of Russian assets, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
“We are talking about a very provocative statement that announces the possibility of illegal actions in relation to our property, in relation to our assets. This cannot but lead to deep consequences. We have spoken about this,” the Kremlin representative emphasized.
Thus he commented on the Bloomberg publication, which reported, citing a National Security Council memorandum to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that the White House supports a bill aimed at confiscating Moscow’s frozen assets.
As Peskov noted, the White House’s alleged support for the decision to seize Russian assets is a step toward undermining the financial authority of the United States and the confidence of international investors in it.
The president’s press secretary added that the US had not informed Moscow of the US administration’s support for such a decision, and there were almost no channels of communication with Washington.
“Basically, the US is trying to put pressure on the Europeans. There is a very paradoxical situation here, because the main “body” of our assets is in Europe, not America. And as always, the Americans want to mainly push the Europeans to take illegal actions, and as a result, in the future – inevitable losses, fines, legal consequences, which the Europeans will inevitably face if they follow the example of the Americans,” said Peskov.
As US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday, Washington has not yet decided to seize Russian assets to transfer to Ukraine, but is involved in developing possible options within the G7.
After the start of the SVO in Ukraine, the EU and the G-7 countries froze almost half of the Russian foreign exchange reserves in the amount of about 300 billion euros. About 200 billion euros are in the European Union, mainly in the accounts of the Belgian Euroclear, one of the largest payment and clearing systems in the world. At the end of October, it announced that in the nine months of 2023 it had earned around three billion euros in interest from investments in sanctioned Russian assets.
The Foreign Ministry called the freezing of Russian assets in Europe theft, noting that the EU is targeting not only private individuals’ funds but also state assets.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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