Kirill Dmitriev: Russia will return its assets, and the EU will pay Ukraine's bills

From left to right: entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Affinity Partners Jared Kushner, Special Presidential Representative for Investment and Economic Cooperation with Foreign Countries, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev, US President’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Kremlin.
Photo: Kremlin.ru

Russia will be able to challenge the freezing of reserves in the European Union (EU), and Europe will have to pay Ukraine's bills. This opinion was expressed on December 15 by Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), special presidential representative for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries.

"Panicked EU bureaucrats continue to make mistakes. They know that using Russian reserves without the consent of the Bank of Russia is illegal — it undermines the reserve system created by the United States and increases costs for everyone. Russia will win in court and return them. The EU guarantors will pay Ukraine's bills. The EU, the euro and Euroclear will suffer," he wrote on the social network, Izvestia quotes.

Russia’s SVR: The UK is urging the European Commission to justify the theft of Russian assets by exploiting legal gaps in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and by referring to "exceptional circumstances".

The UK’s leadership is "desperately pushing" for the seizure of Russia’s frozen assets in its dealings with the European Union, the press office of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reported. British officials reportedly intend to blackmail the Americans with the threat of Europe’s rapprochement with China if the US continues to push for a deal on Ukraine that does not satisfy the Europeans.

TASS has compiled the key SVR statements.

In its contacts with EU officials, the UK’s top leadership is "desperately pushing Brussels to steal Russian funds frozen in the Belgian depository Euroclear."

The UK is urging the European Commission to justify the theft of Russian assets by exploiting legal gaps in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and by referring to "exceptional circumstances": "The opinion of EU countries that disagree is to be ignored."

British officials are feeding Brussels Eurocrats false information that US President Donald Trump is allegedly "seeking a compromise with Moscow for financial gain."

British officials intend to blackmail the White House with "the threat of Europe’s rapprochement with China": "London, Paris, and Berlin have agreed to send signals to Washington about their readiness to drift toward Beijing if the US continues to push for a deal on Ukraine that does not satisfy the Europeans."

The British are falsely claiming that Russia promised the US to allocate Russian assets frozen by the EU "to fund joint projects."

read more in our Telegram-channel https://t.me/The_International_Affairs