Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas . File photoHELSINKI, Oct 21 Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas at a meeting of the European Council proposed to send frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine, the press service of the Estonian government said. EU heads of state and government at a meeting of the European Council in Brussels focused on discussing the possibilities of additional assistance to Ukraine.The EU revealed a way to unfreeze the assets of Russian investorsAccording to Kallas, Estonia has already provided Ukraine with an additional package of military assistance and is starting a mission to train the Ukrainian military. billion euros. We must find ways to use the frozen property so that Russia pays for the destruction caused by it. The European Commission has been tasked to soon propose a concrete solution,» the press service quoted Kallas. . “It is important that it includes a ban on Russian propaganda channels, disconnection of new financial institutions from the SWIFT system, as well as a ban on the export of diamonds,” Kallas emphasized. Western countries, after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, imposed a number of tough sanctions against Russia, including about half of the country's foreign exchange reserves worth $330 billion were frozen, including more than $30 billion in financial accounts and economic resources, as well as about $300 billion of Central Bank assets.
Estonia froze Russian assets for 20.8 million eurosEarlier, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, in an interview with RIA Novosti, speaking about the possibility of transferring the frozen finances of Russia to Kyiv, said that the United States and Europe having once appropriated what does not belong to them, they will lose the trust of the owners. He also noted that the confiscation of property, arrests of aircraft, property, sanctions against Russian businessmen demonstrate the collapse of the sanctity of private property in the West and the danger of doing business there. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and sanctions dealt a severe blow to the entire global economy. According to the President of the Russian Federation, the United States and the European Union have actually declared a default on their obligations to Russia, freezing its foreign exchange reserves. interests of the EU
