Russia has responded to a request from Ukrainian ruler, Volodymyr Zelensky to have Russian frozen assets given to him by the United States to buy military weapons. Zelensky has allegedly asked President-elect Donald Trump to give him $300 billion in assets belonging to Russia in order to buy Western weapons to use against Moscow.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said that Zelenksy is “out of his mind.” The mere fact that Zelensky actually proposed the idea in the first place is proof of Ukraine and the West’s “deep-rooted corrupt ties” Zakharova said.
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During his three-hour-long interview with podcaster Lex Fridman on Sunday, Zelensky said he had proposed that Trump give Ukraine the $300 billion in Russian central bank funds that had been frozen by the US and EU after the escalation of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022. The money would serve as one of the security guarantees to Ukraine during a possible diplomatic settlement of the conflict, he explained. -RT
According to Zelensky himself, he asked Donald Trump to “take the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets. We will take it. Take money, what we need for our domestic production, and we will buy all the weapons from the US.” Such an arrangement “will be very good for your industry, for the US,” he added.
As for Zelensky’s interview as a whole, the Russian spokeswoman described it as a “hellish mixture of neo-Nazism and terrorism with drug delirium.” The Ukrainian leader is “completely out of his mind,” Zakharova suggested.
Zakharova reacted to the claim in a post on Telegram on Monday, insisting that the fact that the Ukrainian leader “offered Trump ‘other people’s money in exchange for weapons’ testifies to Zelensky’s deep-rooted corrupt ties with the Anglo-Americans [the US and UK].”
US President Joe Biden has “firmly hooked the Kiev regime on: steal and kill, and then steal again – a bloody scheme in place since the time of Burisma,” a Ukrainian firm which employed the elderly politician’s son Hunter as a highly-paid director in the 2010s, she wrote.-RT
During his conversation with Fridman, Zelensky, among other things, said that it was “bad” that Ukraine did not have nuclear weapons and confessed that he “despises” the Russian people.
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Peace seems to still be elusive for this year. Zelenksy’s comments and responding rhetoric from Russia do not lend toward a peaceful end to the conflict.
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