A source in the State Department admitted that Russia was disconnected from SWIFT
Moscow – Kyiv, January 26 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) – Today the US and EU will consider new sanctions against Russia in connection with the militia’s attack on Mariupol. Sources "Kommersant", close to the US State Department, do not rule out that it will come to disconnecting Russia from the SWIFT system. Thus, they confirmed the fears twice expressed by VTB head Andrei Kostin, who said that disconnecting the Russian Federation from SWIFT would mean the recall of ambassadors and a state of war with the United States.
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The newspaper's source close to the State Department did not rule out that it would come to disconnecting Russia from the SWIFT system. “This would be very painful (for the Russian Federation),” he said, recalling that similar measures had already been taken against Iran. At the same time, the interlocutor expressed doubt that “the Europeans will agree to such measures,” adding that the United States can act alone.
However, according to a Kommersant source in the payment market, the only thing the United States can do is to prohibit interaction through SWIFT between American and Russian banks directly, in the form of a directive, or by influencing the work of the SWIFT operational center in the United States, through which interaction takes place American banks with foreign ones. However, the United States cannot influence the work of European banks, like any other outside the United States, with Russian banks via SWIFT, since this interaction takes place through SWIFT operational centers in other parts of the world, which are not controlled by America.
Disconnecting Russian banks from SWIFT settlement centers in the United States could freeze all transactions of Russians with US dollars if they use the services of Russian banks - regardless of where these transactions are carried out, within the country or abroad.
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