Kyiv's €1.4B Answer: The EU Lets Russia Fund Its Own War
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Kyiv's €1.4B Answer: The EU Lets Russia Fund Its Own War
The European Union will transfer €1.4 billion in profits generated from frozen Russian sovereign assets to Ukraine, according to Politico Europe, in what has become the most structurally elegant punishment the bloc has managed to devise: Russia's own money, slowly redirected toward the country it is trying to destroy.
The transfer lands in the same week that Russian missiles killed at least 17 people in Kyiv in an overnight attack that the BBC now puts at 21 dead, with the Russian defence ministry claiming it had targeted logistics hubs and supply warehouses. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's response was not grief performed for cameras — it was a procurement demand. More air defence systems. More interceptors. The ballistic missiles, he noted, came through entirely.
The gap between what Ukraine can shoot down and what Russia can launch remains the central fact of this war. Drones: mostly intercepted. Ballistic missiles: not yet. That asymmetry is what the €1.4 billion is supposed to eventually close.
Meanwhile, a car bomb in Russia critically injured the head of a drone manufacturer — a reminder, per The Guardian, that Ukraine's clandestine reach inside Russian territory has not diminished. Someone in Moscow is now in intensive care. Someone in Kyiv is still counting interceptors.
The frozen assets mechanism was always designed to be slow and procedural. The war has never been either.
