“This is one of the most important political issues now: who will pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine?” – asks the head of EU diplomacy.
, said the Foreign Minister EU's Josep Borrell in an interview Financial Times against the background of discussions on how to force Moscow to compensate Ukraine for the losses.
He He recalled that the United States had taken control of billions of dollars in assets belonging to the Central Bank of Afghanistan to compensate for victims of terrorism, as well as for humanitarian aid.
“I am for this option. We have this Russian money, and explain to me why it can't be done the same as the Afghan money, “Borrel said.
At the beginning of the full-scale war, the EU and its allies froze hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves held by Russia's central bank. In March, Russia said it had frozen about $ 300 billion of its gold and foreign exchange reserves, totaling more than $ 600 billion.
The European Commission has said that the cost of reconstruction could reach hundreds of billions of euros, and Europe is expected to bear a significant burden. According to Borrel, the amounts currently collected by Ukraine's partners are just a “drop of water in the ocean” compared to what is needed.
US President Joe Biden has offered to sell the seized assets of the oligarchs to help rebuild Ukraine, an idea also voiced last week by European Council President Charles Michel. Commission officials are exploring ways to make it legally simpler, taking into account all the necessary procedures.
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