High-ranking Russian officials today threatened the West with a "fierce response" if frozen Russian assets in those countries are confiscated.
The spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, wrote on her Telegram channel that Russia will never cede territories taken from Ukraine in exchange for the return of frozen assets.
"Our homeland is not for sale," she wrote.
She added that Russian property "must remain intact, otherwise there will be a strong response to the theft."
"Many in the West have already understood this. Unfortunately, not all," she said, according to Reuters.
The possibility of confiscating Russian assets is being discussed in the US, Great Britain and the European Union, and some are calling for the money to be used for military aid to Ukraine. In the West, in response to the invasion, about 300 billion dollars of Russian assets were blocked.
Commenting on the same topic, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there is still a lot of Western money in Russia that could be the target of Moscow's countermeasures.
"Russia will take advantage of this and endlessly defend its interests," he added.
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