{"id":490004,"date":"2025-10-11T03:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/490004\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T03:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:39:10","slug":"uk-ready-to-use-frozen-russian-assets-to-fund-ukraine-war-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/490004\/","title":{"rendered":"UK ready to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine war effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russia launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvgq2vnxzlvo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extensive missile and drone strikes across Ukraine<\/a> on Friday, causing power cuts in large parts of Ukraine&#8217;s capital, Kyiv, and eight other regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two people were killed and at least 20 people were injured in the attack, Ukrainian officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a post on X following the attack, Zelensky wrote that the &#8220;cynical and calculated attack&#8221; targeted civilian and energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What&#8217;s needed is not empty words but decisive action &#8211; from the United States, Europe and the G7 &#8211; in delivering air defence systems and enforcing sanctions,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every sanction decision weakens Russia&#8217;s war machine,&#8221; Zelensky wrote, in a separate post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also on Friday, Zelensky told the BBC he would urge Sir Keir to join the PURL programme, under which Nato countries buy weapons from the US to give to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While praising the UK&#8217;s strong support for Kyiv, he said it should send a clear signal that it would take part in the system, as well as impose more sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia launched extensive missile and drone strikes across Ukraine on Friday, causing power cuts in large parts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-490004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}