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Kremlin decries Washington’s frozen-asset-backed $20B loan to Ukraine as “banal theft”; Zelensky angered about Orban’s unsanctioned “peace talks” with Putin; US warns of another “Oreshnik” strike.
The White House this week announced that it would grant a $20 billion loan to Kyiv as part of a greater $50 billion package from the G7 nations as a whole. The Russian Foreign Ministry fired back on Wednesday, calling the move “banal theft” that “will not go answered.”
Moscow claimed that it had “sufficient capacity and leverage to retaliate by seizing Western assets under its jurisdiction,” according to AFP, without elaborating.
