Spain Seeks to Push Forward EU Debate on Seizing Russian Assets

Spain called on the European Union to move ahead with a discussion about seizing Russia’s frozen central bank assets as the bloc explores ways to provide continued support to Ukraine.

Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told reporters Monday that a debate was “more than legitimate” considering that the EU is already using interest generated by those assets to help Kyiv.

Spain wants the EU to consider legal options that would allow the use of the assets to support Kyiv militarily as well as to provide compensation for the destruction that Russian forces have wrought in their three-year war, said a ...