OREANDA-NEWS  Brussels intends to use €200 million of income from frozen Russian assets to help Kiev, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said at a joint press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in The Hague.

At the end of February, the Belgian authorities reported that the country had frozen Russian assets worth €58 billion, as well as financial transactions worth €191 billion. In March, Brussels decided to use taxes on interest received from the placement of Russian assets to support Ukraine. And now he wants to use the percentages themselves in full, de Croo noted. According to him, now the country, together with the European Commission, is developing a legal framework for such a step.

"The use of these funds for the military needs of Ukraine and its restoration makes sense both from an economic point of view and from a moral point of view," the prime minister said (quoted by Het Laatste Nieuws).