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Russia - USA, Canada and a number of European countries agreed to disconnect Russian banks from SWIFT

Russia (bbabo.net), - Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Canada, USA, France and the European Commission have agreed to introduce new financial sanctions against Russia. Among them is the disconnection of some banks from the interbank system for transmitting information and making payments SWIFT.

This was announced on Saturday by government spokesman F Steffen Hebestrait. He noted that all Russian banks that have already fallen under sanctions will be disconnected from SWIFT, as well as, "if necessary," other banks of the Russian Federation, TASS writes.

In addition, Hebeshtreit added, a decision has been made to further limit the ability of the Central Bank of Russia to support the ruble exchange rate through international financial transactions.

Earlier, the chairman of the opposition German party Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz, said that Russia's disconnection from the global payment system SWIFT would be a big mistake for the European Union. In his opinion, this step will lead to the collapse of the entire system, and as a result, it may lead to a transition to the Chinese analogue of SWIFT. "We will do much harm to ourselves," the politician is sure.

Disconnecting from the SWIFT international banking system will not help the West weaken Russia, it will simply switch to its own similar system. This was written by The Economist magazine, commenting on such ideas. As the newspaper notes, the Russian authorities have been preparing to disconnect from SWIFT since 2014, when the United States first proposed this method of influencing Moscow. And now the Russian Federation is ready for such a development of events.

Recall that SWIFT is an international interbank system for the transfer of information and payments. More than 11 thousand largest organizations are connected to it in almost all countries of the world.

The European Union will freeze the assets of the Central Bank of Russia Western countries, in particular the US, EU, Britain and Canada have agreed to introduce restrictive measures against the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. This was stated by the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, reports TASS.

"We will paralyze the assets of the Central Bank of Russia. This will freeze its transactions," she said, adding that this would make it impossible for the Central Bank to liquidate its assets.

The opportunity for wealthy Russians to obtain European citizenship in exchange for investments will also be eliminated.

It is also reported that Western countries have agreed to disconnect Russian banks from SWIFT. This was announced in the Cabinet F.

Russia - USA, Canada and a number of European countries agreed to disconnect Russian banks from SWIFT