Ukrainian officials asked U.S. president Donald Trump's administration to let Russian assets frozen in the West to be utilized for the acquisition of American weapons," Bloomberg wrote, citing his sources. According to them, this issue was raised by the Ukrainian side at meetings in fresh weeks. 1 of the agency's interviewers says Kiev turned to Trump with specified a proposal, but The American president was not curious in this idea.
After the invasion Russia to Ukraine in February 2022. Western countries have frozen assets of a Russian bank worth around 260 billion EUR (approximately 1.1 billion PLN). Most of these measures are stored in the Belgian Euroclear deposit.
In the autumn of last year the US and the EU agreed to grant Ukraine a debt of $50 billion (about PLN 200 billion), utilizing profits from Russian assets, which amounts to about EUR 3-5 billion (PLN 12.5-20 billion) per year.
Prior EU approval Transfer of profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine. In July 2024, Kiev received a first tranche of EUR 1.5 billion (about PLN 6.3 billion) under this mechanism. As European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen noted, 90% of these funds were to be allocated to Kiev's military needs and 10% to rebuild the country.
Previously sources of the Reuter Agency reported that the Trump administration intends to get allies in Europe to start buying American weapons for Ukraine. Keith Kellogg, peculiar Envoy of Donald Trump for Ukraine and Russia, to discuss this issue with European countries at the Munich safety Conference on 14-16 February. Agency interviewers noted that this is 1 of Trump's ideas, which looking for an option on how to proceed deliveries to Ukraine without bearing advanced costs.
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Before that, Trump said that the U.S. provided Ukraine with 200 billion dollars worth of weapons (about PLN 799 billion). He pointed out that he intended to require the European Union to compensate for these expenses. He besides stated that Washington could conclude an agreement with Kiev under which will supply assistance to Ukraine in exchange for uncommon earth metals. “I told them I wanted the equivalent of $500 billion (about PLN 2 trillion) in uncommon earth metals, and they fundamentally agreed to do so,” Trump noted.
After the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump on 20 January US military aid to Ukraine was suspended and resumed only in the first days of February — had previously provided sources for the Reuter Agency. According to them, the President's administration abandoned the first thought of stopping any support for Ukraine. However, there are inactive misunderstandings among the White home staff about the amount of military aid that should be provided to Ukraine from American stocks.
According to the State Department, from the beginning of Russia's invasion on a full scale until 2025, the US provided Kiev with military aid worth PLN 66 billion (PLN 264 billion) and from 2014 almost $ 70 billion (about PLN 280 billion). The president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski stated that Ukraine received a weapon worth about 76 billion dollars (PLN 304 billion).
