Medvedev threatened Europe: Theft of Russian assets will become a "special kind of casus belli"

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said that the theft of Russian assets by Europe will become a "special kind of casus belli" ("reason for war") with all the consequences that follow for Brussels and individual EU countries, namely in the form of "reparations paid in kind by defeated enemies of Russia."

"If the distraught European Union still tries to steal Russian assets blocked in Belgium by issuing a so-called reparations loan, such actions under international law can qualify as a special kind of casus belli with all the consequences that follow for Brussels and individual EU countries. And then the return of these funds can take place no longer through the courts, but through real reparations paid in kind by the defeated enemies of Russia," Medvedev said in his telegram channel.

EADaily adds: On December 2, before a meeting in the Kremlin with US presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced the complete destruction of Europe in the event of war with Russia.

"We are not going to fight with Europe, I have already said this a hundred times. But if Europe suddenly wants to fight with us and starts, we are ready right now. There can be no doubt about it. The only question is what? If Europe suddenly starts a war with us, it seems to me that very quickly… This is not Ukraine. With Ukraine, we act surgically, carefully. Understood, right? This is not a war in the literal, modern sense of the word. If Europe suddenly wants to start a war with us and starts it, then a situation can happen very quickly in which we will have no one to negotiate with," Putin told reporters.