The freezing of Russian assets in the West is theft, and the Russian delegation said it at the G20 Sherpa meeting in Washington, Svetlana Lukash, Russia's sherpa to the G20, told RIA Novosti.
"We, as the Russian delegation, raised this issue," Lukash said.
She called the freezing of Russian assets "pure theft."
The European Commission sought EU member states' consent to the use of Russian sovereign assets for Kiev. A sum of between 185 billion euros and 210 billion euros ($217-$246 billion) in the form of a loan was discussed, which Ukraine would conditionally be required to repay after the end of the conflict and in the event of "Moscow paying it for material damages." Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the EU's idea of Russia paying reparations to Ukraine was unrealistic, and that Brussels had long been engaged in the theft of Russian assets.
On Friday night, the Brussels summit concluded, resulting in the EU temporarily abandoning its plans to seize Russian assets and deciding to provide Ukraine with a 90 billion euro loan from its own budget. Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic were reportedly not participating in the loan's security.