The United States is trying to encourage other Western countries to redirect frozen Central Bank reserves to Ukraine. The Washington Post writes about this, citing unnamed sources.
The media notes that the United States is proposing not only the confiscation, but also the use of Russian reserves. The activity of American officials has increased as the United States and Europe have encountered obstacles to allocating additional funds for the military needs of Kyiv, the publication writes. So, back in the summer, the White House requested $20.6 billion for Ukraine, but the Senate cut this amount to $6 billion, and then the House of Representatives completely excluded assistance to Kyiv from the temporary US budget.
The media adds that most of the Russian money is in Europe. And if the United States acted alone, it would only be able to draw on about $5 billion of the $300 billion in Russian reserves stored around the world. The US is increasingly inclined to encourage other Western countries to redirect assets to Kyiv.
The latter is already discussing the possibility of using Russian money as collateral to attract much larger sums from private investors, the newspaper adds.
At the same time, the Kremlin said that it would regard the seizure of Russian assets in favor of Ukraine as “in fact, outright theft.”
Source: Rosbalt
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