retaliation – The United States pledged $20 billion to help Ukraine, financed by interests from Russian assets
Russia cannot digest the choice of its historical enemy. And she makes it known. This Wednesday, Russian diplomacy described the $20 billion in aid promised the day before by the United States to Ukraine as “trivial theft”. A sum which will be generated by the interests of Russian assets, frozen due to international sanctions. The Russians have promised retaliation.
On Tuesday, Washington released 20 billion dollars for Ukraine, representing almost half of the 50 billion promised by the G7. After months of discussions, G7 leaders reached an agreement in October to use the interest generated by Russian sovereign assets frozen in their jurisdictions due to international sanctions.
A “Russophobic surge” from Biden
“These funds – financed by windfall revenues from Russia’s fixed assets – will provide Ukraine with essential support,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen assured Tuesday. “The G7 is stealing other people’s money,” Russian diplomacy lashed out on Wednesday, castigating the “Russophobic impulse” of Joe Biden’s government, a few weeks before the end of its mandate in the United States.
“No pseudo-legal trick, largely seasoned with hypocrisy and double standards, will go unanswered,” warned the Russian Foreign Ministry. And to threaten: “Russia has sufficient capacity and influence to retaliate by seizing Western assets under its jurisdiction(…)
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