Photo: Kremlin.ru. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in the film “Russia. Recent History” on the TV channel “Russia 1” that Ukraine has not yet transferred the USSR's foreign assets to Russia. He explained that Kiev had to do so on the basis of an agreement whereby Russia undertook to repay the Soviet Union's foreign debt.
“In 1993, we undertook to repay all the debts of the Soviet Union. the former Soviet Union, for all former Soviet republics, “Putin recalled, noting that under the agreement, the former Soviet republics undertook to transfer the former Soviet Union's foreign assets to Russia.
Putin stressed that Russia had repaid its debts, but not all former Soviet republics have complied with their part of the agreement. “Ukraine, for example, has not yet done so,” said the Russian leader. p>