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Selenskyj demands access to Russian assets in the West
Before the security conference in Munich, the Ukrainian President Selenskyj explains how he wants to mobilize further help there. “We’re talking about dozens of billions,” he says.
The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj demands the release of further billions from frozen Russian state abroad abroad to reconstruction the country destroyed by Moscow’s attack. In addition to the help of banks and allies, the proportion of blocked Russian assets must also be increased. “We are talking about dozens of billions,” said Selenskyj, according to a message from the presidential office in Kiev. He would raise the question at the Munich Security Conference from February 14th to 16th in discussions with European partners.
The group of the seven large western industrialized countries (G7) has so far decided to grant Ukraine a loan of $ 50 billion (around 48 billion euros)-for indirectly Russia. The loan is secured by interest income from the Russian state west frozen in the west. Ukraine also wants access to the assets itself.
Selenskyj: Inland refugees need living space
“The means could be used to help people acquire living space and find a place to live,” said Selenskyj at a meeting with the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Odile Renaud-Basso. During the talks it was about the support for people who had become refugees in the country because they had lost their apartments because of the war.
That is an urgent question for millions of Ukrainian inland refugees, said Selenskyj in his evening video message that was spread in Kiev. He had instructed the government to use a clear and effective support program for the internal refugees within the next two weeks.
In a message after her fifth visit to the country since the beginning of the war, Renaud-Basso said that the EBRD had transferred 6.2 billion euros to Ukraine in the almost three years of the large-scale Russian invasion, including 2.4 billion euros last year . She also said that support for the country would continue – also for the implementation of energy projects.
Selenskyj thanks for fighter jets from France and the Netherlands
In his video message, Selenskyj thanked for the latest arms deliveries of the allies in the country. France’s President Emmanuel Macron had fulfilled the agreement to strengthen the Ukrainian Air Force with Mirage-Kampfjets. The machines have now been delivered according to French and Ukrainian information. That will help to complete more combat missions, said Selenskyj. Selenskyj said that the delivery of F-16 fight jets from the Netherlands is also important. He did not name quantities.
Moscow politician: Putin’s soon meeting with Trump
According to information from Moscow, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump could soon meet to talk about the conflict for Ukraine. The prominent Russian foreign politician Leonid Sluzki is expecting a meeting in the near future. “February or March, we do not want to advise and give the two guides the opportunity to prepare for this carefully and all -round, but it will soon take place,” said Sluzki, the head of the Federal Foreign Committee of State Duma, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. Preparations for the meeting are in a “advanced stage”.
So far, Trump and Putin have always publicly agreed to communicate at a meeting about a solution to the Ukraine conflict. But there is no place or a date for such conversations. So far, the Kremlin had only confirmed that there are now contacts between the Russian and the US side, but no details.
Sluzki, who was also involved in the first negotiations for a solution in the conflict in 2022, now expressed hope that the meeting of the two presidents would be constructive. “It is about Ukraine, the Middle East and in general about questions of world politics and international relations in the near future. I am sure that this meeting will be a milestone,” said Sluzki.
Dissolution of US-Taskforce against Russian oligarchs
Meanwhile, the US Justice Minister Pam Bondi ordered the dissolution of a law enforcement unit of the Ministry to enforce sanctions against Russian oligarchs. The employees working in the Taskforce “Kleptocapture” are to return to their former posts and the resources used to combat drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations are to be used. This emerges from a memorandum signed by Bondi, which according to media reports became public on Thursday (local time).
After the beginning of the Russian attack war against Ukraine in 2022, the task force “Kleptocapture” was launched under the then US Justice Minister Merrick Garland in order to “take account of” corrupt Russian oligarchs “, as was in a message from the Ministry from the Time was called. The unit should therefore help to enforce the sanctions and export restrictions that the USA and other states had introduced in response to Russia’s attack.
Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022 and has been waging against the neighboring country, which has been a war of death and destruction.
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Source: Stern
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