Russia accuses EU of plotting to "steal" frozen assets for Ukraine

The Russian Foreign Ministry has responded to renewed discussions sounding from Brussels on Moscow being forced to pay reparations to Ukraine, accusing the European Union of fabricating legal frameworks that would allow it to steal Russian money.

Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the country’s top diplomatic body, was speaking at a press conference when she commented on Brussels' proposals, Caliber.Az reports citing TASS.

In her remarks, she claimed Brussels has long been inventing new formulas and legal bases whose sole purpose is the theft of income from Russian frozen assets.

“They present different legal bases, come up with different formulas. Now they have invented some kind of [scheme for] reparations, but the essence remains the same — to begin stealing Russian sovereign assets,” she blasted at news coming out of Brussels.

Commenting on the European Commission’s ideas about Russia paying reparations to Ukraine, Zakharova described the European Union and NATO as living "in an upside-down world, while Russia is in reality.”

During the press conference, she noted that in just the first half of 2025, Brussels had seized and redirected €10.1 billion in revenue generated from frozen Russian assets to the Ukrainian government.

The diplomatic spokeswoman also recalled a statement made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the eve of the Copenhagen summit, announcing the allocation of a ninth tranche of EU macro-financial assistance — an additional €4 billion for Kyiv — as part of a G7 initiative.

By Nazrin Sadigova