Reuters has learned about Kiev's demands to the EU on the seizure of Russian assets

Ukraine calls on European countries not to restrict the use of the proposed loan of $163 billion based on frozen Russian assets. This was reported by the Reuters news agency on October 22.

"Ukraine needs funds by the end of the year and autonomy in determining how to spend them," said an unnamed official of the presidential administration of Vladimir Zelensky in an interview with the publication.

It is clarified that the European Union (EU) countries are offering to use a possible loan to Kiev, mostly for European-made weapons, to support their own defense industry, but the Ukrainian side dictates its own terms.

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European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said on October 21 that the EU currently does not have enough funds to finance Ukraine, which was supposed to be carried out from 2026 to 2027, because the union wants to provide Kiev with a loan against the frozen assets of the Russian Federation.

Prior to this, Bloomberg learned that European countries consider the frozen assets of the Russian Federation as the only source of financing for Ukraine. This trend, as noted in the article, began to be observed due to the enormous economic burden on the EU.

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