In a first, EU transfers โฌ1.5 billion to Ukraine using Russia’s frozen assets
The transfer is the first of its kind under the novel scheme based on Russia’s immobilised assets, estimated to be worth โฌ210 billion across the bloc.
The transfer is the first of its kind under the novel scheme based on Russia’s immobilised assets, estimated to be worth โฌ210 billion across the bloc.
Western allies have vowed to provide Kyiv with the extraordinary revenues earned from Russia’s immobilised assets.
Brussels will soon collect โฌ1.4 billion from Russia’s immobilised assets.
Eurozone finance ministers gave their political backing on Wednesday (5 May) to a G7 plan to provide loans to Ukraine by using windfall profits generated from Russian assets, which they are ready to discuss after a G7 leaders’ summit later in June.
The European Commission proposed on Tuesday (12 December) blocking all profits from the sanctioned Russian sovereign assets in the EU into separate accounts, in the first step towards making use of them to finance Ukraine’s reconstruction.ย