“Our retaliatory actions will not be delayed. Our response will be swift. On December 12, the Bank of Russia issued a detailed statement on the matter. Concrete measures are already being implemented,” reads Zakharova’s commentary, published on the Ministry’s website.

According to the diplomat, the decision to dispose of Russian assets through “indefinite freezing, seizure, or the attempt to present their de facto confiscation as a kind of reparative credit constitutes an absolutely illegal act that grossly violates the norms of international law.”

Zakharova added that, however much Brussels tries to justify such actions with pseudo-legal arguments, it amounts to blatant and crude theft.

She also stressed that the EU’s policy toward Russia “has long lacked any sound logic and resembles the theater of the absurd.”

The European course of harming Moscow at all costs, she continued, has already led to a very deplorable economic situation within the bloc itself.

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