Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting with the leadership of the Russian foreign ministry in Moscow June 14, 2024. — Reuters picMOSCOW, June 14 — President Vladimir Putin said today that plans by Western countries to provide Ukraine with loans using interest from Russian assets frozen abroad was theft and would not go unpunished.
Putin, speaking at a meeting with Foreign Ministry officials, said the way the West had treated Moscow showed that any country could fall victim to a similar Western asset freeze.“Now it is becoming obvious to all countries, companies sovereign funds that their assets and reserves are far from safe in both the legal and economic sense of the word.