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EU's Borrell Says Russia Must Pay For Ukraine Reconstruction


A damaged building in the Russian-occupied Azov Sea port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine on November 29.
A damaged building in the Russian-occupied Azov Sea port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine on November 29.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said at regional security talks on December 1 that he plans to discuss with his counterparts any available legal means to ensure Russia pays for the reconstruction of war-torn Ukraine. Borrell spoke at the start of this year's two-day ministerial conference of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in the central Polish city of Lodz. He noted that the EU has frozen Russian assets worth nearly 20 billion euros since Moscow invaded Ukraine.

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