From Reuters.

Western countries hold $300 bln (https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/how-push-300-bln-ukraine-loan-over-line-2025-09-19/) in cash and bonds owned by Moscow’s central bank. EU leaders have endorsed lending them to Kyiv. On this episode of The Big View podcast Reuters Commentator-at-Large Hugo Dixon, an early advocate of the idea (https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/its-time-unlock-russian-assets-help-ukraine-2025-05-25/) , tells Peter Thal Larsen how it works (https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/russian-assets-could-be-trump-card-kyiv-endgame-2024-11-25/) .

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