According to the press secretary of the Polish government, Piotr Muller, Poland and Ukraine are seeking the confiscation of the property of the Russian Federation located abroad.
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“Those funds that should be intended for the restoration of Ukraine are currently frozen in European banks, mainly in Western European banks. They must be confiscated so that a fund for the restoration of Ukraine is created,” Muller said at a press conference in Warsaw.
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In addition, he noted, the Polish side is also working on economic cooperation with Polish firms to take part in the restoration of Ukraine.
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“Our engineers, our scientists are ready to support this process. But the main thing at the moment is to find a source of funding … And we demand – Ukraine, by the way, too – that these sources of funding be Russian property. Not only Russian oligarchs, but simply Russian Federation, which is stored in European banks,” a representative of the Polish government explained.
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Western countries, against the backdrop of a special operation in Ukraine, imposed tough sanctions against Russia, including freezing foreign exchange reserves. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov previously estimated that about half, or about $300 billion, of Russia’s gold and foreign exchange reserves were frozen. In a number of countries, as part of the sanctions policy, decisions are also being made to freeze the assets and real estate of Russian businessmen.
