{"id":3726,"date":"2025-12-14T03:12:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:48:42","slug":"eus-tampering-with-russian-assets-is-theft-no-matter-how-its-framed-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/eus-tampering-with-russian-assets-is-theft-no-matter-how-its-framed-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s tampering with Russian assets is \u2018theft\u2019 no matter how it\u2019s framed \u2013 Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukraine\u2019s European backers have been debating how to repurpose the funds to help Kiev<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Any attempts by the EU to tap into the frozen assets of the Russian central bank would be illegal under international law, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Russian central bank initiated legal proceedings against Euroclear, a Belgian-based depository that holds the bulk of Russia\u2019s frozen assets, as Ukraine\u2019s European backers debate how to repurpose them to finance Kiev.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cActions against sovereign assets taken without Russia\u2019s consent \u2013 whether indefinite immobilization, confiscation, or attempts to portray them as a so-called reparations loan \u2013 are entirely illegal under international law,\u201d<\/em> Zakharova told reporters at a briefing on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo matter what pseudo-legal tricks Brussels employs to justify it, this is blatant theft.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/693fbb7b2030271a833251a6.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/629416-czech-pm-ukraine-aid\/\">EU member says it won\u2019t finance Ukraine<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Zakharova argued that, apart from <em>\u201cfunding the failed Ukrainian project,\u201d<\/em> the EU is also seeking to use the assets to bolster its own economy, which has been damaged by sanctions targeting Russia\u2019s trade with the West.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary and Slovakia have condemned the EU for invoking its rarely used emergency powers to circumvent potential vetoes from individual member states and make the asset freeze indefinite. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused the <em>\u201cBrussels dictatorship\u201d<\/em> of <em>\u201csystematically raping European law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Politico reported earlier this week that Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria, and Malta asked the European Commission to explore options for providing loans to Kiev other than seizing Russian assets. Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has warned that outright confiscation of the assets would undermine trust in the EU financial system, trigger capital flight, and expose Belgium to legal risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s European backers have been debating how to repurpose the funds to help Kiev Any attempts by the EU to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}