[HIGHLIGHTS] Foreign Ministry: freezing Russian assets to help Ukraine is economic banditry

Foreign Ministry: freezing Russian assets to help Ukraine is economic banditry. “We regard any such steps, including the so-called freezing of the assets of Russia, our citizens and companies, as economicBanditry on the part of the collective West,” RIA Novosti quoted a representative of the department as saying.

Earlier, the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, admitted that using Russia's frozen assets is not an easy task. He said that using the frozen assets was not an option.