Putin condemned the loan package given to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets. Putin said that theft is still theft and will not go unpunished.However, Putin also laid down several conditions to end the war in Ukraine.
Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the agreement of Western countries to provide a loan package to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets and threatened to take retaliatory action. In a meeting with Foreign Ministry officials on Friday, Putin said that the leaders of Western countries are trying to create some kind of legal basis for freezing the assets. But despite all the tricks, theft is still theft and it will not go unpunished. He said that this treatment of Moscow is proof that any country can be the next target and can be punished by freezing assets.
Russian assets were frozen after Putin sent his troops into neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. Now G7 members have agreed on a framework deal for a $50 billion loan package for Ukraine using its interest. After this, this comment of Russian President Vladimir Putin has come. The G7 includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The European Union also participates in all discussions.
Ukraine will receive the money by the end of the year
After this announcement at the G-7 annual summit in Italy, US President Joe Biden said that the agreement on frozen assets was an important result. Biden said that this reminds Putin once again that we are not backing down. The details of the agreement are expected to be finalized in the coming weeks. The money is expected to reach Ukraine by the end of this year.
Putin’s bet
However, Putin also laid down several conditions to end the war in Ukraine. These include Ukraine giving up its ambitions of joining NATO and withdrawing its troops from four Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia. The Russian President said ahead of the Ukraine peace summit starting in Switzerland on Saturday that the conditions are very simple. Representatives of more than 90 countries and organizations will participate in this summit. He said that as soon as they announce in Kiev that they are ready for such a decision, from our side immediately, literally at that very moment, an order will be given to ceasefire and start negotiations.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : June 15, 2024, 07:52 IST