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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@jeffw are the interests on the frozen assets generating/generated 50 billions of $ ? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

From the article:

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western governments froze about $300 billion in Russian assets — including money, securities, gold and bonds — held mainly in banks in Europe.

Leaders of the G7 economies have agreed to use the interest generated by the assets — about $3 billion per year — to help Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@mosiacmango so it's around 6 billions = 3 billions/year x 2years, not 50 billions, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're giving Ukraine $50B, as a loan. They're repaying the loan at a rate of $3B/yr using the seized interest payments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah so ukrains not meant to pay it back but it's gonna get paid back by the interest on the Russian money held in international banks. Thanks for the explanation and this is definitely a step up of what I thought it was.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

This only works assuming Russia is indefinitely sanctioned... So, either we've just signed ourselves into a second Cold War, or the taxpayer will be responsible for repayment.