PNN – Moscow has warned Washington that it will sever diplomatic relations with the United States if the West misuses Russia’s blocked assets to support the war in Ukraine.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, Russia has warned that it will react with all its might to the possible actions of Western countries in confiscating its assets or deploying their missiles near the country’s borders to support Ukraine.
According to “Al-Jazeera” report, “Sergei Ryabkov”, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, has stated that in case of confiscation of blocked assets of Russia under the influence of sanctions imposed by the West, it is possible that Moscow will cut off its diplomatic relations with the United States of America.
According to Russian officials, this country will even respond to the deployment of Western missiles in Europe and Asia. According to “Interfax”, the Russian state news agency, Ryabkov has threatened the United States that Moscow will cut off diplomatic relations with Washington if it hands over the blocked Russian assets to Kiev.
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The warnings of the Russian authorities to the West are carried out in a situation where Kiev desperately needs financial and military support from the West to continue its war operations with Russia, and the Western countries are also concerned about confiscating more than one billion dollars of frozen Russian assets due to the sanctions under the impact of the war in Ukraine.
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia has stated: The West should not have the illusion that Russia is clinging to diplomatic relations with that country with both hands.
Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of the Kremlin, also stated during a press conference that the countries that seize Russian assets will never see peace, and Russia is considering what assets to confiscate from the West in return.
This is despite the fact that some officials in the American political circles have suggested that the country has frozen 300 billion dollars of the Russian Central Bank’s reserve funds in February 2022 in order to pressure the country to leave Ukraine. deliver to Kiev.
However, Russia has warned that any action in this field will seriously affect the international financial system and that this country will defend its rights in courts and other ways if such action is carried out by the West.
Similar actions of some European countries such as Germany to present a plan based on the use of Russia’s blocked assets for Ukraine caused Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to call Germany a “thief”.