Frozen assets debate: 'this is no time for legal niceties', analyst says

Russian frozen assets will have to be used for Ukraine at some point, Belgium's deputy prime minister Vincent Van Peteghem said on Thursday, added however Belgium "would not take any reckless compromises" before it agreed to any deal over this. Peter Zalmayev, Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, says Belgium has been pushing a 'defeatist rhetoric', 'repeating Kremlin's lines about how Russia is pre-destined to win this war'.

Frozen assets debate: 'this is no time for legal n...