RUSSIA CONFIRMS: This is how many of our gold reserves are BLOCKES in the West!
IZVOR: Republika - 15.03.2022 | 12:21
Western countries have frozen about half of Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves - $300 billion. This was stated by the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, Anton Siluanov.
- We have a total amount of reserves of about 640 billion dollars, about 300 billion reserves are now in a state where we can not use them - he said in the show Moscow-Kremlin-Putin on Russia 1 television, TV Zvezda reports.
Siluanov said earlier that all budget obligations, primarily social ones, will be fulfilled as a matter of priority, Russia has the resources for that.
Since 24 February, Russia invaded Ukraine. In this regard, severe Western sanctions were imposed against the Russian Federation.