**EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen today said the EU could seize €300bn of Russian Central Bank reserves and use it to rebuild Ukraine.**
A further €19bn of Russian oligarchs’s money, currently frozen, could be added to the reconstruction fund, she said.
She said the physical damage Russia’s invasion has caused in Ukraine stood at an estimated €600bn.
Stating “we have the means to make Russia pay”, she said: “We have blocked 300 billion euros of the Russian Central Bank reserves and we have frozen 19 billion euros of Russian oligarchs’ money.
Don’t threaten, just do.
If a cent of that money makes it back to Russia, I’m going to Brussels to fuck shit up.
Damn, that’s 6.8 Twitters.
The bravado of Putin in keeping so much of Russia’s reserves abroad is still shocking to me.
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**EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen today said the EU could seize €300bn of Russian Central Bank reserves and use it to rebuild Ukraine.**
A further €19bn of Russian oligarchs’s money, currently frozen, could be added to the reconstruction fund, she said.
She said the physical damage Russia’s invasion has caused in Ukraine stood at an estimated €600bn.
Stating “we have the means to make Russia pay”, she said: “We have blocked 300 billion euros of the Russian Central Bank reserves and we have frozen 19 billion euros of Russian oligarchs’ money.
Don’t threaten, just do.
If a cent of that money makes it back to Russia, I’m going to Brussels to fuck shit up.
Damn, that’s 6.8 Twitters.
The bravado of Putin in keeping so much of Russia’s reserves abroad is still shocking to me.