Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The West is not just trying to steal Russian assets, it is committing robbery. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum.
He recalled that a significant amount of Russia’s gold and foreign exchange reserves were frozen in Western banks.
“And they constantly say that they are going to steal our money,” Putin noted.
He explained that as soon as the West decides to do this, the movement towards regionalization of payment systems will accelerate and become irreversible. This is a useful process for the global economy, and perhaps it is worth paying for, the Russian leader noted.
"By the way, I just thought, after all, I have a basic legal education, I said "theft of our gold and foreign exchange reserves." Theft is the secret theft of property. And this is open. This is robbery," Putin emphasized.
Russia aims to further strengthen its financial settlement instruments, while interacting with the EAEU members and other friendly countries that are like-minded with the Russian Federation, the head of state added.
After the start of the SVO in Ukraine, the West imposed sanctions on the Russian banking sector. In March 2022, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that about $300 billion of Russian gold and foreign exchange reserves were blocked in the West.
Member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Dmitry Belik told the Regnum news agency that the US had difficulties allocating money to Ukraine, so they decided to resort to illegal actions - to try to transfer frozen Russian assets to Kiev. Professor of the Department of International Law at MGIMO Dmitry Labin called these actions theft and stated that the world order is being reformatted, when no one guarantees that all obligations will be fulfilled.
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