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Political support is growing across the European Union for a groundbreaking plan to issue a €140 billion loan to Ukraine based on the immobilised assets of the Russian Central Bank, which would help the country sustain its economy and armed resistance.
"It's a very good idea," Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said at an informal summit of leaders on Wednesday. "I think that we have to go forward with that."
His Swedish counterpart was equally positive.
"We have long argued in favour of a more offensive way of using the frozen assets because it's simply not acceptable to have all these frozen assets and regard them as Russian equity with no chance of using them," Ulf Kristersson told reporters.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who welcomed the 27 leaders in Copenhagen, called on the bloc to rapidly step up financial and
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