The building of the Dutch Embassy in Moscow. File photoMOSCOW, March 18The volume of Russian assets frozen by the Dutch authorities has grown to 200 million euros, said the head of the country's Central Bank, Klaas Knot.Three days ago, the head of the Dutch Ministry of Finance, Sigrid Kag, reported that investment and pension funds of the Netherlands frozen Russian assets in the amount of 6 million euros. The first package of EU sanctions against Russia was adopted on 24 February. «I can say that during this time we have frozen or arrested more than 200 million euros,» Reuters quoted the director of the Central Bank as saying. Knot warned that this is a week-old figure that «will grow.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. In response to this, the United States, the EU countries and a number of other states, including Japan, introduced new sanctions against Russia and major Russian organizations.
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