UK to lend Ukraine an additional £2.26bn for weapons to fight Russia
GuardianOCT 2024
US Sends Ukraine $20B Loan Financed by Frozen Russian Assets
Above: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (L) and Ukrainian Minister of Finance Sergii Marchenko shake hands at the conclusion of a signing ceremony at the Treasury Department on Oct. 23, 2024, in Washington, DC. Image copyright: Chip Somodevilla/Staff/Getty Images News via Getty Images
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
Following Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, Western countries immobilized Russian funds in order to drive up the costs of Putin's illegal war. Now, nearly three years later, Western countries are sending another message — that Russia will have to pay for all the damage it inflicted.
Pro-Russia narrative
This is banditry and theft — pure and simple. The proposed step of using revenue from Russia's frozen assets to fund Ukraine in the conflict is yet another example of the degradation of how the West is degrading its own standards and violating its commitments to international law.