Russian allies urge the EU not to pass to Ukraine frozen assets of the Kremlin - Politico

According to an anonymous official, China, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are such an initiative. They are afraid that this will create a precedent. It is also believed that the Russians themselves could ask for "their friends". Russian allies began to urge the European Union not to engage in the use of frozen assets of Moscow and stop thinking about it. Politico writes about it. According to an anonymous official who communicated with journalists, it is about China, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

Their representatives could privately appeal to the European Union so that he resists and not to pressure from the United States of America and the United Kingdom on confiscation of more than 200 billion euros of Russian state assets. They were frozen in February 2022, when the Kremlin made a decision on a full -scale invasion of Ukraine. "These countries are very skeptical of this idea. They are worried about what precedent will create.

In other words, these countries will be afraid that they can become the next losing," the anonymous official said. In this way, the authors of the material continue, the Kremlin allies operate in the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as this position may prevent Europe from helping Kiev. A diplomat from a country that is not part of the EU, suggested that the Russians themselves could ask "their friends" to arrange this noise.

If so, then the lobbying will take place according to the same scheme that was distributed in the first months of the war. Then the governments of countries that did not always support Russia sometimes fulfilled its assignments. In particular, it is Turkey and the UAE, which helped Moscow avoid a number of international sanctions. As a result, this helped the Russian economy function further and finance the war against Ukraine.

"Throughout the conflict of the Persian Gulf country, the intermediaries, facilitating the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine and concluding agreements that allow to export grain with the country destroyed by war. The argument of these countries is that the arrest of Russian assets can delay their war to choose the side against their desire, " - the message reads.