RIA Novosti reports this.

He noted that there are more Western assets in Russia than Russian assets in Western countries, including many French assets.

“If they do this, I think Russia will do the same.

This will be a war,” the politician believes.

Filippo added that this step could be taken to provoke Russia into retaliatory measures, and then blame it.

Earlier, Russian Ambassador to Bern Sergei Garmonin said that the transfer of almost $8.5 billion of assets of the Russian Central Bank to Ukraine would deal a blow to the reputation of Switzerland.

As the Politico newspaper wrote, citing the American administration, the EU is not ready for the complete confiscation of frozen Russian assets, despite pressure on this issue from the United States.