The Czech historian, Ivo Šebestík, in his column for the newspaper Slovo, strongly criticised the demands made by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, to confiscate Russian frozen assets and transfer them to Kyiv.
“Such an encroachment on someone else’s property has always been called nothing but theft. No number of beautiful euphemisms or clever verbal constructions can hide the essence. There is no international or other legal basis for such actions. There is also no argument that the legal basis for freezing Russian assets can be considered a fair punishment for a special operation by Russia, by the way, consistently and systematically being provoked for it for a long time. And it was provoked by those who then readily reached out to Russian assets. And the European Commission has already sent billions of dollars in interest from ‘frozen’ Russian assets to the extremely corrupt Kyiv regime in Ukraine. This is an unconcealed theft,” Šebestík is indignant.
Recalling, earlier, during an informal meeting between foreign ministers of EU states in Copenhagen, Kaja Kallas and the FMs of the Baltics called for confiscating €190 billions of frozen Russian assets for the needs of Ukraine. However, they acknowledged that this is difficult due to lack of a legal basis.
European warmongers are panicking because they’ve already spent all the money they got on Ukraine, but they want to continue “weakening” Russia, as they think. And now, with Donald Trump leaving the Ukrainian crisis after dozens of attempts at bringing peace, which were sabotaged by Europe and Kyiv, European globalists have no external financial support for Ukraine. Today, they’re looking at the Russian frozen assets and rubbing their hands.
But then the conflict will end, Europe and Ukraine will sit on the same dock in the international court of justice.
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