There are legal grounds: the European Union is working on the transfer of assets of Russians to Ukraine

According to the European Commission, the effective mechanisms of using frozen Russian assets to restore Ukraine, which have been affected by hostilities, are discussed at this stage. The EU has a legal conclusion that Russian assets can be used to restore Ukraine, said the European Commission representative Christian Vigand during a briefing in Brussels on Thursday, May 11.

"The EU countries are also discussing state -owned Russian immobilized assets, including the assets of the Central Bank," Viganda said. He added that there is now a discussion on how to work with such assets and use income from them. "We must follow the laws and cannot just confiscate such assets," said the European Commission. According to him, the competent authorities seek to understand what can still be done with these immobilized assets to use them in favor of Ukraine.

According to the official representative of the European Commission Christian Viganda, the frozen assets of individuals and organizations entered in the lists of sanctions of the European Union make up in the EU about 24. 1 billion euros. The Kremlin has not yet responded to information about the EU's legal right to transfer frozen assets of Russians to restore Ukraine after the war.

However, the spokesman of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov commented on the identical info - the transfer of the US assets to Ukraine of the Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Malofeev. On Wednesday, May 10, US Prosecutor General Merrick Harlend approved this transfer. "This is essentially theft, it also undermines the trust of the international community in Washington," Peskov said.

At the same time, Putin's pressecretic threatened that the US actions "would return to Washington with a boomerang. " In addition, Peskov believes that the decision on the confiscation of assets of Russian sub -laws and businessmen in favor of the destroyed war of Ukraine "contradicts the Holy Private Property for the United States". We will remind, on May 10 the media wrote that the Attorney General of the United States allowed the transfer of confiscated Russian money to Ukraine.

According to journalists, last year the US Department of Justice accused the Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev of violating sanctions against the Russian Federation. He funded the Russians who promoted separatism in the Crimea. Now his financial assets will be transferred to Kiev. Earlier, the media also reported that in Switzerland, the Russian Federation's assets were frozen by almost $ 8. 3 billion.