Officials want to use Russia’s blocked assets to aid Ukraine’s recovery

According to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, officials in Ukraine and the United States have considered utilizing confiscated Russian assets to compensate for the damages after invasion.

“We have this negotiations with the United States, with all of our partners, and this should be a very good case for future possible aggressors,” Shmyhal said.

“They all should understand that world society, the world community will take all of their assets and will pay by these assets for this country, which is suffering because of their aggression,” he added.

Continuing with, “So this is a very important international issue and task and goal, international goal for all civilized world to find a solution how to take this frozen assets and finance recovery of Ukraine in this case.”

“And for future, it should be like standard if some country will make aggression against another democratic countries. It should pay for this, absolutely, for everything,” Shmyhal concluded.