Moscow, Dec. 17 -- Senior Russian official and presidential aide, Kirill Dmitriev, slamming the UK, NATO, and EU for their constant escalation of anti-Russian rhetoric, said that the demonisation was little more than a ruse to justify their plans to seize frozen Russian sovereign assets to support Ukraine's war effort.
Dmitriev, Russia's special presidential envoy for economic cooperation with foreign countries, wrote in a post on X that Western governments were collectively demonising Moscow as part of a coordinated narrative campaign, to legitimise their "theft" of Russian reserves.
"Why are NATO/UK/EU suddenly pushing a coordinated and frantic 'Russia menace' narrative? Not just to distract from mass migration, grooming gangs, rising c...