Voting results show that the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee supports the bill on the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine’s needs. This was reported by Bloomberg.
The publication notes that 20 committee members spoke in support of the initiative, and only one senator, Rand Paul, voted against it.
The agency emphasizes that the bill will now be sent to the entire US Senate for consideration.
Before this, it was known that Russia had frozen assets and foreign exchange reserves. It is unlikely that he will be arrested Due to the lack of unity among the European Union countries on this issue.
According to the source, European officials are more concerned with legal issues than political ones, such as the detention and transfer of Russian assets to third countries, including Ukraine.
Before that in the West appreciated Risk of transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.
Bloomberg noted that in the best-case scenario, Ukraine would only be able to retrieve currently frozen Russian assets years later, possibly even decades later.
Previously at the European Commission in the name The amount of Russian sovereign assets frozen in the European Union.