FT: U.S. proposed unfreezing some Russian assets and placing them under Washington’s control; Europe rejected the plan

The Financial Times reports that the United States has proposed to European countries that they unfreeze some of the Russian assets frozen since the start of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine and place them under Washington's control. The proposal was put forward by American negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during talks in Miami on October 9 with representatives from Ukraine, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and NATO.

However, European officials rejected the plan, with some European officials present at the meeting stating that they opposed handing control of the assets to anyone and ruling out returning any portion of them to Moscow. The move has raised concerns among Europeans and Ukraine, who questioned the United States' intentions and its fundamentally different approach to pressuring Moscow.

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