British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday asked Western countries to be “bolderer” and confiscate frozen Russian assets to then redistribute them to Ukraine, AFP and Reuters reported.

“We need to be bolder in confiscating hundreds of billions of frozen Russian assets,” the British prime minister wrote in an article published by the Sunday Times two years after Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Agerpres quotes.

“We start by taking the billions of interest generated by these assets and sending them to Ukraine,” Rishi Sunak said. “Then, within the framework of the Big Seven, we need to find legal ways to seize the assets themselves, as well as send these funds to Ukraine,” he added.

“What a tribute to Alexei Navalny’s fight to hold the Russian state accountable for its actions,” he added, referring to the Russian dissident who recently died in a penitentiary in the Arctic region.

In a statement released at the end of a video conference on Saturday, the G7 leaders urged their governments to continue pursuing “all possible ways in which Russia’s sovereign assets can be used to support Ukraine, in accordance with the legal and legal norms of our systems. international law”.

They confirmed that “Russian sovereign assets in (their) jurisdiction will remain frozen until Russia pays the damages caused to Ukraine.”

On January 30, the European Union, which froze 200 billion euros of Russian Central Bank assets, reached an agreement on the first stage of a plan aimed at distributing the proceeds from frozen Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine.

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