{"id":1334481,"date":"2025-12-18T16:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tusk-all-eu-countries-agreed-to-use-frozen-russian-funds\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:45:24","slug":"tusk-all-eu-countries-agreed-to-use-frozen-russian-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/tusk-all-eu-countries-agreed-to-use-frozen-russian-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Tusk: All EU countries agreed to use frozen Russian funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">European Union countries have reached a turning point on the issue of using frozen Russian assets to provide financial assistance to Ukraine, but discussions on technical details are ongoing.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-world\/4071075-tusk-pro-zamorozeni-aktivi-rf-mi-dosagli-perelomnogo-momentu-trivae-robota-nad-tehnicnim-detalami.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by Ukrinform, citing a statement by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Brussels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">According to Tusk, a common position has been formed among European leaders on the advisability of using Russian funds for the benefit of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">&#8220;We have definitely reached a turning point. Everyone agrees that it is worth trying, and that it would be fair, justified and good for Europe to use Russian funds for Ukraine,&#8221; the head of the Polish government said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">At the same time, he emphasized that a number of countries seek to obtain maximum legal and financial guarantees, so the discussion on implementation mechanisms is still ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">Tusk added that the European Union is moving towards providing Ukraine with a so-called reparations loan, which will be based on frozen Russian assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">According to him, the political solution has actually matured, but work remains to be done on the technical and legal details on which the launch of this mechanism will depend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As previously reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/velyka-brytaniia-zaprovadyla-novi-sanktsii-proty-rosiyskykh-naftovykh-kompaniy\/\">on December 18, the British government announced a new package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, targeting the energy sector.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yevropeyska-rada-hotuie-rishennia-pro-reparatsiynu-pozyku-dlia-ukrainy\/\">diplomats from the European Union countries reached a preliminary agreement on using frozen Russian assets to provide Ukraine with a so-called &#8220;reparations loan&#8221; in 2026-2027.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union countries have reached a turning point on the issue of using frozen Russian assets to provide financial assistance to Ukraine, but discussions on technical details are ongoing. This was reported by Ukrinform, citing a statement by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Brussels. According to Tusk, a common position has been formed among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1283267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76892,76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1334481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1283267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}