The President of the European Union, Mr. von, stated that Ukraine would receive 4 billion euros in aid in the form of loans, with 2 billion allocated for Ukraine to invest in drone projects. These funds are provided through the interest from the seized Russian assets, and if Ukraine receives war reparations from Russia in the future, it will need to repay these funds.
The European Union has always been thinking about freezing Russian assets, but they know the consequences could be severe. Directly seizing Russian sovereign assets would severely undermine the international community's trust in the euro and the European financial system, potentially causing countries to move their assets out of Europe and accelerate the de-euroization process. Moreover, Russia has passed legislation authorizing countermeasures, and the scale of Western assets frozen within Russia may be larger (about 500 billion dollars). Directly seizing them would provoke equivalent retaliation from Russia, causing losses to Western companies. Based on these factors, the EU started to play a gray area by using the income from Russian assets to assist Ukraine. However, countries such as Belgium, which hold large amounts of Russian assets, oppose this because Russia is not at war with Europe, and such an open plunder would affect financial stability.
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