Putin ally says UK will have to return Russia money that London has 'illegally' gifted to Ukraine

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The talker of Russia's little location of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said connected Friday that Britain would person to instrumentality Moscow wealth that London had decided to illegally acquisition to Ukraine to money Kyiv's military.

Volodin, an state of President Vladimir Putin, was speaking aft Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Ukraine had received a archetypal tranche of funds worthy astir $1 cardinal from Britain, secured by the proceeds of frozen Russian assets.

"England's transportation of funds belonging to Russia to Ukraine is simply a gross usurpation of planetary law. They volition person to springiness backmost to Russia what they are present truthful generously giving away," Volodin said, according to parliament's property service.

"This volition undermine assurance successful Britain's fiscal strategy forever, due to the fact that what happened destroys the rule of the inviolability of property, connected which the full planetary fiscal strategy is based."

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Andrew Osborn)