The bloc\u2019s conduct is illegal, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed<\/p>\n
The EU is committing \u201ctheft\u201d by handing over profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
\nSome $300 billion in Moscow\u2019s funds were blocked by the US and EU after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. Around $240 billion of the sum is still being held at the Belgium-based clearing house Euroclear.
\nOn Wednesday, high-ranking Russian Foreign Ministry official Vladislav Maslennikov told RIA Novosti that Brussels has already transferred \u20ac8 billion ($9.1 billion) in income generated by the frozen Russian assets to the government in Kiev.
\nWhen asked to comment on the development by journalists on Thursday, Peskov replied by saying that Moscow considers such actions as illegal.
\n\u201cWe truly believe this is theft. And we treat it accordingly, nothing has changed in our position here,\u201d the spokesman noted.
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