<p>Moscow: Russia warned the West on Tuesday that Moscow would be very tough if the United States and European Union seized hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Russian assets.</p><p>After President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia's central bank and finance ministry, blocking around $300 billion of sovereign Russian assets in the West.</p><p>The EU on Monday adopted a law to set aside windfall profits made on frozen Russian central bank assets, it said on Monday, in a first concrete step towards the bloc's aim of using the money to finance the reconstruction of Ukraine.</p>.Ukraine says Russia buying Starlink terminals in 'Arab countries'.<p>"This is theft: It's the appropriation of something that doesn't belong to you," Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik radio, <em>TASS</em> reported.</p><p>Zakharova said the response from Moscow would be "extremely tough" as Russia felt it was essentially dealing with thieves.</p><p>"Considering that our country has qualified this as theft, the attitude will be towards thieves," Zakharova said. "Not as political manipulators, not as overplayed technologists, but as thieves."</p><p>Russia has said that if its property is seized then it will seize US, European and other assets in responses.</p>
<p>Moscow: Russia warned the West on Tuesday that Moscow would be very tough if the United States and European Union seized hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Russian assets.</p><p>After President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia's central bank and finance ministry, blocking around $300 billion of sovereign Russian assets in the West.</p><p>The EU on Monday adopted a law to set aside windfall profits made on frozen Russian central bank assets, it said on Monday, in a first concrete step towards the bloc's aim of using the money to finance the reconstruction of Ukraine.</p>.Ukraine says Russia buying Starlink terminals in 'Arab countries'.<p>"This is theft: It's the appropriation of something that doesn't belong to you," Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik radio, <em>TASS</em> reported.</p><p>Zakharova said the response from Moscow would be "extremely tough" as Russia felt it was essentially dealing with thieves.</p><p>"Considering that our country has qualified this as theft, the attitude will be towards thieves," Zakharova said. "Not as political manipulators, not as overplayed technologists, but as thieves."</p><p>Russia has said that if its property is seized then it will seize US, European and other assets in responses.</p>