The leadership of Russia has an action plan for the introduction of the United States to ban by Russian banks to fulfill a number of operations in dollars. This was stated by the press secretary of President Dmitry Sadkov, RIA Novosti reports.
“Plans are, plans for hedging risks and minimizing the consequences of such unpredictable actions,” said the sands, commenting on Washington’s statements about the possible blocking of banking operations with dollars in case of an escalation of the situation around Ukraine.
In early December, Bloomberg, with reference to the Presidential of the US President, spoke about the possibility of introducing restrictions on the conversion of the ruble to the dollar, the euro and the British pound as a potential punishment, if Russia invads Ukraine, reminds RBC. Later, January 20, US President Joe Biden stated that in the event of an attack, Moscow will face severe economic consequences, including its banks will not be able to carry out operations with dollars.