Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow would react to Berlin’s latest blocking of Russian media’s foreign accounts. She talked about this in an interview with a German agency. DPA.
“We are not doing this for pleasure, but we will respond,” said Zakharova.
According to the agency, Zakharova did not disclose the list of media outlets whose accounts were blocked in Germany.
formerly Zakharova statedThat Russia allowed the use of asymmetric measures in response to the blocking of the accounts of the embassy and commercial mission of the Russian Federation in Poland. The diplomat noted that the Polish authorities took this step under an “absurd pretext” with “suspects of using funds to finance terrorism”. Zakharova emphasized that the actions of the Polish authorities contradict the traditional principles of communication between civilized states and all legal norms.
Earlier, Rzeczpospolita newspaper reported that Poland seized 1.2 million dollars from the Russian embassy and trade delegation. According to media reports, the Polish prosecutor’s office blocked about PLN 800,000 and more than $912,000, and then transferred the money to their accounts as “material evidence”.