Ukraine demanded the return of at least a third of the USSR's property abroad
Ukraine demands from Russia at least a third of the property located in other countries that the Russian Federation inherited after the collapse of the USSR.
About this on the air of the TV channel “Obstvennoe. News,” said the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK Vadim Prystaiko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Prystaiko, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Russia assumed the obligation to pay debts, including the republics of the USSR, in exchange for foreign property, Ukraine did not see a list of either debts or property, and therefore considers itself deceived.
“Russia invited all republics to forget about debts, that is, Russia will pay off external creditors, but will also take everything that belongs to the Union around the world. The only republic that initially agreed but never ratified, that is, our parliament never gave consent to this agreement, was Ukraine.
Our only argument was the following - we are not against it in principle, if it is a fair agreement, just show us, please, what the Soviet Union owes and what assets it has around the world. We never received this explanation from Russia,” the diplomat said.
“It’s just that all the other republics, including our Baltic brothers, they decided not to get involved in this discussion, just forget and move on. Still, since we approximately occupied exactly more than a third of everything that the Soviet Union had, that the Soviet Union earned, we demanded reporting. This reporting was not received.
And everything, including diplomatic foreign institutions, castles and houses, and some other assets remained with Russia. We would like to know, and now we demand from Russia that you must return to us for all these 30 years at least a third of what is abroad.
In particular, the premises that are located here and were registered illegally, in our opinion, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the Russian Federation. Now there are companies that help us deal with these legal difficulties,” said Prystaiko.
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