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The US House of Representatives voted to confiscate and use frozen Russian assets. The Senate must now vote on this bill. Meanwhile, Russian propagandists will be hysterical over this decision.
This is 24 Channel was commented by former KGB and Russian Foreign Intelligence Service officer Sergei Zhirnov, noting that there is only $6 billion of frozen Russian money in the United States. In Europe – more than 200. Let us note that congressmen voted for this decision on the evening of April 20.
“These 6 billion are actually a very big problem for them. And then, how they started screaming really proved how serious this problem is for them,” Zhirnov emphasized.
The Russians are trying to pass this off as an alleged “mistake of the West.” Like, how did he “dare to touch their private property.”
These are the people who express the opinion of a country in which private property does not exist at all. Under Putin there is no private property. Any person can be deprived of any property at any time, because there are no courts, there is no protection,” said a former KGB officer.
So the Russian oligarchs realized that their property is not their property. They were simply given a certain part “to manage.” But Vladimir Putin considers everything “his own.” So, for example, the dictator in 2023 stated that the owner of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash, allegedly does not have any billions. Like, the money with which the PMC existed all these years is supposedly from the Russian budget.
“That is, “I, Putin, paid this money, but Prigozhin was not owner. He was simply the manager of this money.” Therefore, it is very painful for them,” noted Sergei Zhirnov.
The propaganda did not work
The Russians hoped that the United States of America allegedly “were scared.” The aggressor country hoped that Russian propaganda had worked. After all, for example, there were various publications in foreign media on this matter.
For example, the director of the European Central Bank stated that “we must be very careful in confiscating frozen Russian assets “. In addition, there were commissioned articles in the media that supposedly “in case of confiscation, everything will be very bad.”
“Those people who say that economic sanctions are not work – they are wrong. The hysteria that the Russians threw about these confiscations proves just the opposite,” the former KGB officer emphasized.
What are frozen Russian assets used for
- Confiscated frozen Russian assets are used for the needs of Ukraine. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal noted that these funds are necessary in order to restore the Ukrainian state.
- The President of Ukraine said that Russia's frozen assets should work against it. The head of state emphasized that the Kremlin must pay a real, painful price for the war against Ukraine.
- Russian propagandists were outraged by the US decision. For example, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Russia will force the United States to respond “in the way that best suits our interests.” They say that world investors will allegedly turn their backs on this country. All because they allegedly encroached on the “inviolability of private property.”
