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Using interest from frozen Russian assets to make loans to Ukraine is against international law and will backfire on the West, Moscow’s Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov has said.
The US and the EU blocked an estimated $300 billion in assets belonging to the Russian central bank when the Ukraine conflict escalated in February 2022. More than two thirds of the funds, around $213 billion, are being held at the Brussels-based clearinghouse Euroclear.
“Of course, these decisions taken by the US and the EU are not lawful, they contradict the principles of international law, the UN Charter, they go against everything there is,” Chebeskov told reporters on Friday.
Moscow has repeatedly warned that seizing its assets would amount to “theft” and not only violate international law, but undermine reserve currencies, the global financial system, and the world economy. - RT
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Western intelligence services have trained Ukrainian saboteurs to carry out provocations at Russian nuclear power plants, Moscow’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has claimed.
The attempts by Ukraine to target nuclear facilities inside Russia are “beyond reckless” and could end up plunging the European continent “into a radiation nightmare,” Nebenzia warned during an unofficial meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday.
The authorities in Moscow “have credible information that Western intelligence agencies, primarily the British MI6, have systematically prepared Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups to organize provocations at nuclear power plants in Russia.”
Among other things, Kiev and its foreign backers were working on an operation to blow up power lines connecting the nuclear plants with the Russian national energy grid, the envoy stressed.
He recalled how throughout the conflict, “representatives of certain countries” had accused Moscow, “contrary to common sense, of destabilizing the security situation around the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), which is under our control.” The facility was secured by Russian troops in March 2022.
According to Nebenzia, those making such claims “do their best to ignore the obvious fact that regular and reckless attacks against the ZNPP are a deliberate terrorist strategy of Ukraine.” - RT
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