"With today's payment of 1 billion euros, we are reiterating our steadfast commitment to Ukraine. We are helping the country's economy stay on course and rebuild critical infrastructure damaged by Russian aggression," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

The European Commission has disbursed an additional 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) to Ukraine, to be repaid with proceeds from frozen Russian assets, the commission announced on March 20.

  • towerful
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    8 days ago

    Because then the EU loses potential leverage over Russia - whether to protect EUs own security or to push Russia into a peace deal.

    It’s like shooting all the hostages.

    Edit:
    As another comment points out, it’s interest from the assets. So the assets are still intact, thus not triggering russians