LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday that European leaders of the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ needed to agree to finish the job on using frozen Russian assets to bolster Ukraine’s defences. “We need to agree to finish the job on Russia’s sovereign assets and unlock billions to help finance Ukraine’s […]
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Starmer urges allies to ‘finish the job’ on frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s defence
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LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday that European leaders of the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ needed to agree to finish the job on using frozen Russian assets to bolster Ukraine’s defences.
“We need to agree to finish the job on Russia’s sovereign assets and unlock billions to help finance Ukraine’s defence,” Starmer told the European leaders at the meeting in London.
“The UK is ready to move in tandem with the EU to drive this forward as fast as possible.”
(Reporting by William James, writing by Sam Tabahriti)