New threatening gestures from Russia: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accuses the West of coming dangerously close to the brink of a direct military conflict between the nuclear powers with its support for Ukraine.
The US and NATO are obsessed with the idea of inflicting a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia. Such a confrontation risks creating a greater nuclear threat, Lavrov said in Moscow on Monday.
There are threats of confiscation of Western assets
Meanwhile, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Vyacheslav Volodin, threatened to confiscate Western assets in Russia. “Washington has passed a law confiscating Russian assets to push the EU to take the same step, which will have devastating consequences for the European economy,” the Duma leader said, adding: “Our country has now every reason to take symmetrical measures.” decisions about foreign assets.”
He explained that Russian assets worth $280 billion (262.84 billion euros) had been frozen abroad. Only a share of five to six billion dollars lies in the US, in the European Union this is 210 billion euros.
According to US media reports, the House of Representatives has voted in favor of a bill that would allow President Joe Biden’s administration to seize billions of dollars in Russian assets parked in US banks and transfer them to Ukraine for reconstruction to carry.
Source: Krone
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