Moscow Not Aware of US Efforts to Free Its Assets in the EU, Kremlin Says

Dmitry Peskov said these issues are on the agenda of talks between the Americans and Europeans, according to media reports.

Moscow, October 15. /TASS/. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a briefing that Moscow was unaware of any US efforts, as described by the Financial Times, to free up Russian assets in Europe by seizing them, and that the authenticity of the report had not yet been confirmed.

In response to a question about this issue, he said: We do not know anything about this. According to media reports, these are the issues that are on the agenda of the dialogue between Americans and Europeans.

The Kremlin spokesman added: We do not know how reliable these reports are.

The Financial Times claimed that the American side took the initiative during the negotiations in Miami and thus tried to facilitate the settlement in Ukraine. However, according to the newspaper, the EU side disagreed with Washington's negotiators.