The use of frozen Russian assets is illegal and, in essence, constitutes theft that will be punished, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
  • fdagpigj@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    pay back

    1. (transitive) To pay (a debt or the lender) so as to provide the entire amount of money owed.
2. (figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.

    Here I am using the 2nd meaning.