“If the US and the EU, at the request of the states, decided to freeze Russian reserves — and now they are in earnest starting a legal process to prepare the basis for the confiscation of Russian money — who knows, if they are not annoyed by someone else tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, they can do something the same," the TASS minister quotes.
At the end of June, the US Treasury Department announced that more than $330 billion worth of assets of the Central Bank of Russia and Russians under sanctions were blocked or frozen in 100 days.
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov noted that the Russian side regards the freezing of its reserves abroad as theft.