EU leaders face crunch decision on using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine

Zelenskyy calls on EU leaders to give ‘vital’ loan to Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged EU leaders at a crunch summit to agree to a multi-billion euro loan in frozen Russian money to fund Ukraine.

Europe to decide on unprecedented plan to use Russia’s frozen assets to help Ukraine

The European Union is on the precipice of a momentous decision on whether to use frozen Russian assets to finance more support for Ukraine, an unprecedented plan that has set up a clash between the many member states that support it and Belgium, where the lion’s share of the assets is held.

EXPLAINER: EU plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine - what’s at stake?

How likely is that agreement will be reached, what are the arguments for and against and what happens if it fails?

Russia has few legal options to challenge EU frozen asset plan

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A core question for European Union leaders discussing whether to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine is whether the idea is legally sound. But even if they approve the plan, Russia has limited options for challenging it in court.

EU Leaders Meet to Decide on Using Frozen Russian Assets for Ukraine

Leaders from across the European Union are meeting in Brussels to try to bring to an end the long-running saga over how to fund a loan worth billions of euros to Ukraine on Dec. 18. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is also in attendance. One proposal for funding the loan being considered by the European Commission, which acts as the EU’s executive branch, is using frozen Russian central bank assets, which are mostly held in Belgium. Howev…

Using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine ‘absolutely just’, says Zelenskyy

The Ukrainian president said he told Bart De Wever “everything” he could to persuade the Belgian premier to drop his staunch opposition to the €210 billion ‘reparations loan’