The commercial activity through which Russia finances the killing of Ukrainians is ending, according to the Czech Foreign Minister.
The Czech government has frozen all Russian state assets in the country.
This was announced by Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba and his Czech counterpart Jan Lipavsky.
“At my proposal, the government today approved the freezing of Russian state assets in the Czech Republic. This ends the commercial activity from which Russia finances the murders of Ukrainians,” Lipavsky noted.
In turn, Dmitry Kuleba congratulated this “principled step” and thanked the Czech minister.
“All countries that have not yet done this should follow this example. Russian money should go to the restoration of Ukraine, and not to murder and destruction,” Kuleba added.
Later, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala added that Prague would demand the same decision from other EU countries.
“The government today decided to freeze Russian state property. This means that the Russian Federation will not be able to dispose of real estate owned by a Russian government department. The real estate cannot be transferred or sold. Bank accounts in which rent for this real estate is paid will not be able to be used by Russia for any way. And we will demand on the European stage that other countries take similar steps,” Fial said.
Earlier it was reported that the United States had prepared an unprecedented bill to freeze, confiscate and transfer Russian funds to Ukraine.
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