{"id":55137,"date":"2025-12-19T07:41:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/putin-says-loans-for-ukraine-will-impact-eu-budgets\/19\/12\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:41:56","slug":"putin-says-loans-for-ukraine-will-impact-eu-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/putin-says-loans-for-ukraine-will-impact-eu-budgets\/19\/12\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin says loans for Ukraine will impact EU budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the European Union of the attempted &#8220;robbery&#8221; of Russian state reserves, which he claimed had failed for the time being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said that Russia would continue to defend its interests and seek politically independent courts that would grant the claim for the return of the state billions frozen in the EU. &#8220;Whatever they steal, at some point it must be returned,&#8221; Putin said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Putin made these remarks in response to a question about the consequences of the overnight EU-level decision to support Ukraine through the issuance of billions in loans. The loans had led to further indebtedness of EU countries such as France, Putin said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_b1p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_b1p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_b1p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_j1p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_j1p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {\n        #_R_j1p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the same time, Putin reiterated that the EU&#8217;s pursuit of using Russian state funds could shatter trust in the international financial markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Putin was responding to questions from journalists and citizens during his annual televised Q&amp;A session broadcast on state television in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The EU agreed overnight to support Ukraine with \u20ac90 billion ($105.4 billion) through interest-free loans. However, the plan by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to use Russian state funds frozen in the EU for the support of Ukraine failed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/putin-says-loans-ukraine-impact-114034369.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the European Union of the attempted &ldquo;robbery&rdquo; of Russian state reserves, which he claimed had failed for<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/putin-says-loans-for-ukraine-will-impact-eu-budgets\/19\/12\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/dpa_international_526\/b36489f39b5ef887ec6f7595738f426d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}