Russian envoy urges German chancellor, EU chief to resign after frozen assets plan collapses

'Ursula and Merz should resign if they want to prove the 'conviction, unity, and determination' they promised, after failing to achieve the illegal seizure of Russian reserves by the EU,' says Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev

By Elena Teslova

MOSCOW (AA)—Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev on Friday called on EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to resign after failing to secure the expropriation of the Russian assets.

"Ursula and Merz should resign if they want to prove the 'conviction, unity, and determination' they promised, after failing to achieve the illegal seizure of Russian reserves by the EU," Dmitriev wrote on US social media company X.

He added that Merz and Von der Leyen "spent all their political capital, promised results, and ended up with a devastating failure."

Earlier in the day, the European Commission announced that the EU summit participants were unable to agree on the expropriation of Russia's frozen assets under the guise of a "reparations loan" to Kyiv.

Instead, a decision was made to allocate a €90 billion interest-free loan to Ukraine through collective borrowings by EU member states.

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