Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga said that it is necessary to move from freezing Russian assets to seizing them, Ukrinform reported, quoted by BTA, referring to the minister's post on the social network “Ex“.
“When it comes to blocked Russian assets, it's time to move from freezing to seizing them in order to benefit not only from interest, but also from the assets themselves, to support the defense, resistance and reconstruction of Ukraine,“ he wrote.
Sibiga stressed that this is fair and legal, “in order to force the aggressor to compensate for the damage and damage“.
The cost of damage caused in Ukraine as a result of Russia's aggression has reached nearly $800 billion, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.
The situation on the battlefield remains difficult in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovo sectors, as well as in the Kursk operation area, Zelensky said in his evening address, quoted by Ukrinform and BTA.
"Today I received a report from Commander-in-Chief Syrsky on the situation on the front and in the areas of the Kursk operation. The situation remains difficult in the Pokrovsk sector and with Kurakhovo. I am grateful to all the units that are destroying the occupiers there. I would also like to express special gratitude to our fighters in the Kursk region - there we need strength to achieve the right results for Ukraine and Ukrainians in diplomacy," he stressed.