The EP called on the EU to use all frozen assets of the Russian Federation to help Ukraine

Members of the European Parliament (EP) have called on the European Union (EU) authorities to use all frozen Russian assets to use them as a basis for granting loans to Ukraine. The document was published on October 9 on the official website of the EP.

"The European Parliament once again calls on the [EU] member states, together with their G7 partners, to immediately approve the European Commission's proposal to use all frozen Russian assets as the basis for providing Ukraine with a substantial grant and loan," the text of the resolution says.

As the MEPs suggest, Ukraine will reimburse the allocated grants through future "payments of war reparations by Russia." At the same time, earlier in the day, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, had already stated that the European Union's ideas about paying reparations to Ukraine from Russia were divorced from reality.

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On the same day, Politico reported that Belgium had put forward a list of demands to the European Union regarding Russia's frozen assets, outlining red lines about their use to help Ukraine. The country's Prime Minister, Bart De Wever, noted that the scheme proposed by the European Commission is actually equivalent to confiscation.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on October 7 that the Russian side was taking the necessary measures to ensure its interests against the background of Western intentions to confiscate frozen assets of the Russian Federation. All possible legal tools will be used for this purpose.

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