Russia considers Brussels’ failure to use Russian assets to finance Ukraine a ‘fatal blow’ for EU

MADRID, December 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, celebrated on Friday the “great victory of law and common sense” and the “fatal blow” dealt to the European Union, after a European summit in Brussels ended up approving a loan of 90 billion euros to keep Ukraine afloat for the next two years, but without resorting for the moment to freezing Russian assets.

Dmitriev, via social network

“You burned political capital by promoting illegal moves against Russian reserves, and you failed,” said the Russian president’s adviser, Vladimir Putin, addressing the aforementioned European leaders by asserting that “the whole world has just seen you fail in your attempt to intimidate others into breaking the law.”

A few minutes earlier, in another publication, he had called the temporary renunciation of the use of frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine “a great victory for law and common sense, and for the voices of reason in Europe who protected the European Union, the euro and Euroclear”, a financial entity based in the Belgian capital, from which the Central Bank of Russia claims more than 193 billion euros for the “direct or indirect” unauthorized use of assets.

Dmitriev thus applauded the decision that Brussels will not use frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine in the context of the war with Russia, despite the fact that European leaders agreed on a loan to kyiv of 90 billion euros over the next two years and that the President of the European Council, António Costa, declared that the Union “reserves the right to use the frozen assets to repay this loan”.