Belgium will be very hurt: Putin will strike for asset confiscation — Franken

Russia's response in case of expropriation of frozen assets will be very painful. This was stated in the social network X by the head of the Ministry of Defense and Foreign Trade of Belgium Theo Franken.

"(Russian President Vladimir) Putin will never give up these billions. He will regard this as an act of war and deal a serious blow to Belgium. It's going to hurt. It hurts a lot. And, perhaps, as a retaliatory measure, he will confiscate 200 billion of Western assets located in Russia. It will be not only Belgian money, but also money from such large countries as the USA, Germany and France," the minister warns, quoted by RIA Novosti.

As reported by EADaily, at the EU summit Belgium did not support the expropriation of frozen Russian assets under its jurisdiction. This follows from the final statement of the summit on Ukraine, excerpts from which were published by Reuters.

As reported by EADaily, Ukraine needs to receive frozen Russian assets before the beginning of next year. This was stated today in In Brussels, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky. According to him, assets should be obtained "preferably as soon as possible."

There are countries that have a negative attitude to this initiative and resist it, but Kiev will continue to work with them, Zelensky said.

Belgium, which holds the bulk of the Russian assets frozen in Europe, will not support the initiative to use them to help Ukraine if other countries of the bloc do not share possible risks with it. About this at the summit The EU was announced by the country's Prime Minister Bart de Wever.