On Thursday (May 18), the Cremlin of Russia shows that The consulate's bank account is to respond to the unfriendly behavior of "Western Collective".
Reuters reports that the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday (17th) that the Fenfen Embassy in Moscow and the diplomatic bank account of the Consulate in St. Petersburg was frozen, so that the embassy could only be paid with cash.
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekkahaavisto pointed out on the same day that other EU countries also encountered the problem of capital exchanges in Russia, but Finland's restrictions were even more serious.
The Kegong spokesman Peskov commented that this is not a Russian measure. "We responded to the official situation caused by several countries in the Western collectives, regrettable, including Finland."
A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zaharava, pointed out later on Wednesday that frozen Finnish Foreign Bank account is just a "peer measure" restricted by Russian diplomats in Finland.
After the outbreak of the Russian and Ukraine War, there was a problem with the bank accounts of the embassies of Russia in European countries. Sometimes the funds were also confiscated to punish Moscow's operation in Ukraine.
