All Russian banks should be disconnected from the SWIFT system, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.
"Seven Russian banks will be disconnected from SWIFT. But I want to assure you that these are not the last banks to be disconnected. We are continuing this work. All Russian banks must be disconnected from the SWIFT system. Otherwise, those transactions, that money that will be conducted through the still connected banks will be sprinkled with the blood of Ukrainian innocent citizens, women, children who died under the blows of Russian aggression, and everyone in the EU, across the ocean, who will resist this and insist that some other bank should be left connected, should realize that they will trade through these banks on Ukrainian blood," Kuleba said at an online briefing on Wednesday.
As reported, the EU banned from March 12 financial messaging services to Russian banks VTB, Otkritie, Promsvyazbank, Sovcombank, Bank Rossiya, Novikombank, as well as the state corporation VEB.
