Belgium, EU face off over Russian assets as Putin calls leaders ‘pigs’
Hindustan Times Amritsar
|December 19, 2025
Belgium insisted on Thursday that its European Union partners must provide ironclad guarantees that it will be protected from Russian retaliation before it would back a massive loan for Ukraine, AP reported.
Belgium’s condition came a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin accused European politicians — whom he described as “young pigs” — of whipping up hysteria about a potential war with Russia, Reuters reported.At a high-stakes EU summit in Brussels, the 27-nation bloc’s leaders are set to decide on whether to use tens of billions of euros in frozen Russian assets to underwrite a loan to meet Ukraine's military an
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