Moscow states that it is” ready for any surprises ” ;.
Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Birichevsky said that Moscow does not see any “real prospects” for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT.
This is reported by the Russian edition RIA Novosti.
“There are no real prospects for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT, we have stressed this repeatedly throughout the year. This rhetoric periodically dies down, then appears with renewed vigor,” Birichevsky said.
He stressed that the headquarters of the international private company SWIFT is located in Belgium. Like, how, in this case, “the Americans are going to implement their threats.”
Recall that earlier the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the possible exclusion of Russia from the SWIFT payment system due to any new aggression against Ukraine. The corresponding resolution was adopted by the main legislative body of the European Union by an absolute majority on December 16.
At the same time, the head of the second largest bank in Russia, VTB, Andrey Kostin, commented on the possibility of disconnecting the Russian Federation from the SWIFT payment system in the event of an invasion of Ukraine. He said that Russia would “survive” such a decision , but it would be an “unfriendly event” on the part of Western countries.
