Frozen Russian Assets Key to Ukraine Defense: Brussels Edition

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For European leaders listening to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the importance of finding a way to monetize the €140 billion of frozen Russian assets will be hard to misinterpret.

“I hope, God bless, we will get this decision,” Zelenskiy told me yesterday in a Bloomberg TV interview in Kyiv. “It’s a question of our surviving, that’s why we need it very much. And I count on partners.”

The decision of whether and how ...