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title: "Rishi Sunak: Seize Frozen Russian Assets to Help Ukraine "
url: https://moldova1.md/p/25032/rishi-sunak-seize-frozen-russian-assets-to-help-ukraine
published: 2024-02-25T14:47:01Z
language: en
section: "International"
source: moldova1.md
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# Rishi Sunak: Seize Frozen Russian Assets to Help Ukraine 

> British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has urged Western countries to take a more aggressive stance and seize frozen Russian assets to redistribute to Ukraine, AFP and Reuters report.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has urged Western countries to take a more aggressive stance and seize frozen Russian assets to redistribute to Ukraine, AFP and Reuters report.

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*Sursa: Bloomberg.com*

*"We need to be bolder in seizing the hundreds of billions in frozen Russian assets,"* Sunak wrote in an article for the Sunday Times, marking two years since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

*"First, we can use the interest those assets generate to help Ukraine,"* Sunak said. *"Then, in coordination with our G7 partners, we need to find legal ways to confiscate the assets themselves and rebuild Ukraine,"* he added, as quoted by Agerpres.

*"This would be a fitting tribute to the fight of Alexei Navalny to hold the Russian state to account for its actions,"* he added, referring to the Russian opposition figure who was imprisoned and died in Russia's Arctic region.

In a statement released on Saturday at the end of a video conference meeting, G7 leaders called on their governments to continue to act *"through all possible means by which Russia's sovereign assets could be used to support Ukraine, in accordance with our legal systems and international law."* 

They reaffirmed that *"Russian sovereign assets in (their) jurisdictions will remain frozen until Russia pays for the damage caused to Ukraine."*

On January 30, the European Union – which has frozen 200 billion euros of assets belonging to the Central Bank of Russia – reached an agreement on the first stage of a plan to allocate the income generated by frozen Russian assets to the reconstruction of Ukraine.

Translation by **Iurie Tataru**