Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said on Sunday that the European Union no longer has the same unity on Ukraine as its leaders recently failed to agree on another financial package for the "Kiev regime." In a post on social media, the Russian official claimed that European officials are losing elections due to not addressing internal problems in their countries while focusing only on Ukraine.
Volodin noted that European figures are thus again "talking about the theft of our country's frozen funds" to keep militarizing Ukraine. "Such a decision will require a symmetrical response from the Russian Federation. In this case, much larger assets belonging to unfriendly countries will be confiscated than our funds frozen in Europe," he warned.