Russia does not digest the choice of its historic enemy. And she lets him know. This Wednesday, Russian diplomacy described as “trivial flight” the aid of $ 20 billion promised the day before by the United States in Ukraine. A sum which will be generated by the interests of Russian assets, frozen due to international sanctions. The Russians have promised reprisals.
On Tuesday, Washington released $ 20 billion for Ukraine, representing almost half of the 50 billion promised by the G7. After months of discussion, the G7 leaders had concluded in October an agreement to use the interests generated by the Russian sovereign assets frozen in their courts due to international sanctions.
A “Russophobic momentum” of Biden
“These funds – funded by exceptional revenues from the immobilized assets of Russia – will provide essential support from Ukraine,” said Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen on Tuesday. “The G7 steals the money from others,” Russian diplomacy, castigating the “Russian momentum” of Joe Biden on Wednesday, a few weeks before the end of his mandate in the United States.
“No pseudo-legal tip, which is largely seasoned with hypocrisy and two weights, will remain unanswered,” warned the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And to threaten: “Russia has sufficient capacity and influence to retaliate by entering Western assets under its jurisdiction”.
