Dmitry Medvedev commented that “the Brussels thieves have not abandoned their plans for robbery”.
A fierce attack on the European Union was launched by the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, in the wake of the EU Summit on funding for Ukraine.
“The Brussels thieves have not abandoned their plans to carry out a future robbery,” he wrote on Telegram, referring to the EU’s failure to reach an agreement on using frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine.
In his Telegram post, Medvedev explained that “to avoid being labelled trash by the local criminal underworld, the Brussels gang decided to temporarily go low,” a decision he attributed to “the old hag Ursula [von der Leyen, president of the European Commission].”
Medvedev noted that “neither the petty [German Chancellor Friedrich] Merz nor the servile ‘Lucy’ [French President Emmanuel] Macron managed to impose their decision” at the EU Summit, which Medvedev described as a “Gathering of thieves.”
The decision on frozen Russian assets remains on ice
European governments failed to reach an agreement on financing Ukraine with frozen Russian state assets during the 16-hour EU Summit in Brussels.
Instead, countries were forced to agree on an emergency plan based on the EU’s joint debt, promoted for weeks by Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, and considered unlikely just hours before the deal was finalised. In a further blow to EU unity, three countries – Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic – will not participate at all.
“Of course, some people didn’t like it… they want to punish [Russian President Vladimir] Putin by taking his money,” De Wever commented, referring to the initial plan to use Russian assets. But “politics is not an emotional job” and “rationality has prevailed.”
For weeks, the EU executive and Berlin had pressured member states to finalise a controversial plan to use up to €210 billion in frozen Russian state assets to finance Ukraine. De Wever once again ensured this would not happen, having already derailed the seizure plan during a previous summit in October.
Instead, leaders agreed to jointly borrow €90 billion to finance a two-year loan to Ukraine, guaranteed by the EU’s common budget.
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