Peskov called theft the idea of ​​seizing Russian assets in favor of Ukraine

Nobody spoke to the Russian side about plans to seize its assets in favor of Ukraine, but in the event of such a development of events, Moscow will take retaliatory measures, Peskov said. “It will be in fact outright theft,”

If foreign countries take steps to use the frozen Russian assets to restore funding for Ukraine, "it will be, in fact, outright theft." This was stated to journalists by the press secretary of the President of RUSSIA Dmitry Peskov, RBC correspondent reports.

“Such a decision would be illegal, blatant,” he said and added that such actions would require a response from Moscow.

According to the presidential press secretary, foreign states did not notify Russia of whether such plans existed: "No, no one told the Russian side and the Kremlin about this."

Borrell urged to transfer Russia's reserves frozen in the EU to Ukraine Politics

Since the beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, Western countries have imposed sanctions against dozens of Russian entrepreneurs and top managers of companies. They were banned from entering and their assets, including shares in companies, accounts and real estate, were frozen. In addition, at the end of February, the European Union and NWA decided to block the international reserves of the Bank of Russia.

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According to the Central Bank, as of April 1, 2022, the volume of international reserves amounted to 606.5 billion in DOLLAR terms. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said earlier that about half - $ 300 billion - were frozen. Assets in Chinese yuan, monetary gold stored in Russia (about $132 billion as of February 1), cash reserves, and special drawing rights (SDR, about $24 billion) in the International Monetary Fund remain legally out of reach for sanctions.

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The HEAD of the regulator, Elvira Nabiullina, said Russia would challenge the freeze on foreign reserves, while Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Western countries of actually stealing assets.

The Minister of Germany said that he was "politically open" to the idea of ​​arresting the assets of the Central Bank Politics

The Ministry of Economic Development of Ukraine estimated the size of the frozen gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Russian Central Bank at $415 billion and stated that it was working with Western partners on a mechanism for the confiscation of this money in favor of Kyiv. The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, suggested that the European Union consider this issue. He cited as an example the assets "worth billions of dollars" that the United States seized from the Central Bank of Afghanistan - in the future, according to Borrell, the funds will be used to compensate victims of terrorism and for humanitarian assistance to the country.

On May 17, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said that the idea of ​​arresting the foreign assets of the Russian Central Bank is being discussed among the member countries of the G7 and the EU.