UK transfers about 1 billion dollars in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

Untrue!! They also care about children. Maybe too much. Like, a LOT.

We're calling them the Epstein class now.

Power. Power you are looking for. They need power to get wealth, status and all that. Taking away their global power is what's needed. These fucks, every single one of them including their families need to lose access to the world by preventing them from traveling. A billion lost they earn tomorrow (literally). That doesn't hurt that's just annoying like a mosquito flying around.

Maybe they'll threaten us with nukes...

THE MEAN ENGLAND JUST GAVE AWAY MONEY THAT BELONGS TO THE GREAT AND VERY NICE LEADER OF RUSSIA! TOTALLY UNFAIR!

I’d like to recommend that the next Russian asset we send to Ukraine is trump himself, but they don’t deserve that

As he rightly should! Being a Russian asset himself, he's probably scared, he'll be stolen, too

Putin is going to be so pissed. This is great.

I think in a lot of cases the money is funds generated through interest on frozen Russian assets. It's assumed to be better that way because that puts off the legal question of appropriating assets rather than freezing them for another time, assuming it'll be after reparations are decided many years from now.

In addition to what other people have said: transferring everything now means there is one less bargaining chip. At the moment the oligarchs will be looking at their frozen assets and trying to decide how to get them released. Once the assets are handed fo Ukraine, they have nothing to hope for, and less to gain by pushing for the war to end.

We're doing something very specific (I use the global we here, european countries doing that). We want to remain a safe place to invest, and not establish a precedent that if you do a war not directly against us but we disagree with, rule of law will still be followed. It's a big part of why europe is considered reliable and loyal. So we don't touch the frozen assets at date of seizure. Maybe they can be used in case of a peace agreement for reparations or whatever, or maybe as incentive for Russia to agree to terms, or whatever. But we use the interests generated, because the fund generated since seizure are considered differently by law. Might seem inefficient, slow, weak, whatever, the point is it's also one of our greatest strenght on the world stage : we can be trusted. The world need more of that, frankly.

For reference, the article says: >The assistance is part of the Group of Seven's (G7) ERA initiative, a 50 billion dollar loan program that uses **profits from frozen Russian sovereign assets** to finance Ukraine and repay the loans. Using profits from the frozen assets is what the EU/Belgium has done for years. I also don't think that the $50B figure is random. The projected need for Ukraine (according to the EU, Ukraine and IMF) for 2026-2027 was ~€140B IIRC (under the assumption that the war ends in 2026). The loan that the EU ended up agreeing on was €90B, which means that it fell short by €50B, which is likely where the G7 efforts (including UK) come in. 90+50=140

even Boris did tbf

Go Ukraine! 🇺🇦 ❤️

Starmer's domestic messaging may not be the best, but on a world stage, he does us proud imo.

I'm from the UK and right leaning, I always try and view all decisions from a neutral standpoint and remove my own bias when deciding if government decisions are a good or bad thing. Iv got to say the only consistent positive is his support of Ukraine. The rest of his policy's and decisions have been pretty shit though !

Big, fat hug?

We did something good for once? Awesome! Almost missed that. Hugs back, also Putin can f*** straight off.

Hegseth "A Royale with cheese"

They've already threatened four of our cities.https://www.businesstoday.in/world/story/sleep-well-europe-russia-threatens-uk-sites-with-potential-strikes-over-ukraine-support-526009-2026-04-16

That's if they can rouse Medvedev from his drunken stupor.

Absolutely!

Putin has been telling his oligarchs to take their money out of the west for a long time. Putin wants that money in russia so he can touch it. So Putin might be pissed that Ukraine is getting money for the war but he is happy that the oligarchs are paying the price for not listening to him.

Well, in fairness, they can't keep it in Russia because it would get ~~stolen~~ missapropriated.

the fact that only one country does this after years of war speeks volumes. We should have done that on a large scale as soon as the first sanctions didn't show any effect.

Except for Farage and Reform, who repeated all of Russia's talking points in an interview with Laura Kurnesburg just before the last general election in order to get the Russian bots on side.

Meanwhile, I get the impression that my fellow citizens in the Netherlands are dragging their feet, with a decent number of people being against spending any money on the Ukraine-Russia war, seemingly completely forgetting that [Russia shot down an airplane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17) with almost 200 Dutch citizens.

Just think of the size of principal sum.

Almost a weird feeling enit

It'll be the profits.

I don't get all the praise I see in this post. No country is going to trust the Dollar system anymore. This is a big step for the Brics taking over.