“We cannot resurrect the people killed by Russia, but we have a real opportunity to make the aggressors pay reparations. As this money is kept in our banks and docked at our piers”
Lithuania will provide the National Bank of Ukraine with an additional €10 million for urgent reconstruction works, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said.
“We need to continue and accelerate our military, humanitarian and financial assistance to help Ukraine win this war faster,” the Lithuanian prime minister told.
The most appropriate and just way to pool funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction would be to seize and use Russian assets frozen under the existing sanctions, she added.
“We cannot resurrect the people killed by Russia, but we have a real opportunity to make the aggressors pay reparations. As this money is kept in our banks and docked at our piers,” Simonyte was quoted as saying in a statement released by the government press service. “I call on the European Union and all non-EU countries that have imposed sanctions to create a legal mechanism to seize assets and to make the sanctions really effective.”
