Kremlin calls EU transfer of frozen Russian asset revenue illegal
Moscow says it wants a full peace settlement rather than a ceasefire, as its investment envoy holds fresh talks in Washington
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The Kremlin said the European Union's decision to send revenue from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine is illegal and amounts to theft. It repeated that Russia is seeking a full peace settlement with Ukraine rather than a temporary ceasefire.
On a possible Trump-Putin summit in December, the Kremlin said no decision has been made and it is too early to discuss a possible agenda. It said Russia appreciates the US invitation to Putin and will decide on a response.
The statement comes as Kirill Dmitriev, Russia's investment envoy, holds fresh talks with the Trump administration in Washington, a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New York. The Kremlin has said conditions for peace talks are not yet ready. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Putin again vowed to seize the Donetsk region, calling it the 17th or 18th such promise, in remarks made to American representatives hours after the Rubio-Lavrov meeting.
Moscow's rejection of the EU asset transfer and its insistence on a full settlement rather than a ceasefire add friction to any negotiated path forward, but its stated openness to discussing a possible Trump-Putin meeting keeps diplomatic channels nominally open. Set against the active US outreach through Dmitriev and the Kremlin's repeated welcoming of American invitations, the statement reads more as posturing than a shift in Russia's negotiating position.