“Loan for Ukrainy will be repaid from future windfall profits resulting from the immobilization of Russian state assets,” we read in a statement issued after the ministers' meeting. countries G7 w Washington. According to the announcements, the first payment of funds to Kiev is to take place by the end of 2024.
As Politico explains, the loan granted to Ukraine will be repaid in full profits generated by Russian assets frozen in Western countries after the invasion Moscow to Ukraine in February 2022. The total is estimated at over USD 250 billion.
The war in Ukraine and Russian assets. A landmark decision by the G7
The spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted to the announcement of the loan to Kiev and the declaration of its repayment from Russian funds in an extensive statement. Russia Marija Zakharova.
Russia. Marija Zakharova thunders after the decision of the G7 countries
“The decisive reaction of the Russian side to another attempt by the European Union to seize the proceeds from the frozen assets of the Russian Federation won't last long” – reads one of the fragments.
According to Zakharova, it is “another fraudulent plan to misappropriate someone else's property”which – as she wrote – “the EU, together with the United States and other partners, developed to compensate for its own expenditure on financing the regime in Kiev.” “A degree this time cynicism and lack of principlesso common in the West, is simply unacceptable“- said the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to Zakharova, the declaration of the G7 countries shows that the E.U “losing competitiveness” when it comes to “causing strategic failure” Russia. In Zakharova's opinion, it is “trivial theft in order to fill holes both in the Ukrainian budget and in the EU budget itself, created as a result of the irresponsible policy of the Brussels autocracy.”
“Robbery”. The spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs blames the West
According to the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “the money stolen from Russia, which should have been used to repay loans, will be given to the most corrupt clique Volodymyr Zelensky (or anyone after him).”
At the same time once again Zakharova accused Kiev “unlawful actions against Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine.”
“All the confusion around misappropriated Russian funds will only lead to… the final loss of any remaining trust world to the EU as a trading, economic and investment partner and to further debt bondage future generations of Ukrainians” – wrote Zakharova. “The collective West is no stranger robbing entire countries and continents. The methods are changing, but the essence remains the same as it was centuries ago,” she said.