Siluanov called the condition for breaking off relations with the West

In the event of the recovery of diplomatic property in the West RUSSIAwill be forced to answer “not in the legal field”,Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said

Russia will regard the recovery of diplomatic property by the authorities of the United States and the European Union as a break in relations and a direct conflict, and will also be forced to respond “outside the legal field,” Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told reporters.

“If the goal is to start foreclosing frozen reserves, then the Russian Ministry of Finance from the very beginning was ready to “buy out” the balances on blocked accounts from the Bank of Russia and pay them off to investors. We were told “no,” said Siluanov (quoted by TASS).

The European Union reported on the freezing of only €23 billion of Central Bank reserves Politics

He suggested that the goal of Western countries could be to search for and recover other Russian assets, but there are no commercial ones among them, and official ones are protected by diplomatic immunity.

“If, nevertheless, we reach the stage of relations where diplomatic assets will be levied, then this is tantamount to breaking off diplomatic relations and a direct conflict,” the finance minister said.

In the event of the recovery of diplomatic property in the West, Russia will be forced to respond "out of the legal field," he added.

A few days after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the US, EU, UK and CANADA announced a decision to freeze the assets of the Central Bank of Russia. The statement from Western countries said that this "will not allow the Bank of Russia to use its own international reserves to weaken the impact of Western sanctions."

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Later, Siluanov said that due to Western sanctions, Russia lost access to almost half of its gold and foreign exchange reserves worth $ 300 billion. He also said that due to restrictive measures, there were problems with the fulfillment of the country's debt obligations. Siluanov said that Russia would continue making payments in rubles until the gold and foreign exchange reserves were unfrozen.