Moscow recently threatened to take Alaska back from the US. “The United States must remember that we can restore the state of Alaska, which belonged to Tsarist Russia until the 19th century,” said Vyacheslav Volodin, head of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
And he added in statements released last night by local media: “I urge America to always remember that there is a territory called Alaska that was part of Russia, so when you try to dispose of our country’s resources abroad, before that, they must remember that we also have something that can be restored.”
He also believed that “Washington could have acted more rationally if his country had taken this step.”
It is noteworthy that the state of Alaska, located in the northwest of the North American continent, was part of Tsarist Russia before Empress Catherine II sold it to the United States for 7 million 200 thousand dollars.
These statements came in response to Western insinuations that the reconstruction of Ukraine would be carried out at the expense of Russian funds seized in Al-Kharj. Kyiv directly demanded this.
Last Monday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyal announced that his country’s reconstruction plan was worth $750 billion and called for Russian assets confiscated abroad to be the main source of those funds.
Since the start of the Russian operation on the territory of its western neighbor on February 24, Washington and its allies have frozen Russian assets estimated at $330 billion.
