Finally someone writes what should have been the obvious approach to using frozen russian assets for Ukraine's support: issue bonds with those assets as the collateral, use their interest proceeds to service the debt.
Eventually russia will lose and international courts will decide on reparations, which will settle the matter. But until then, this is what the debt market exists for.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/02/28/how-to-put-russias-frozen-assets-to-work-for-ukraine?utm_medium=social-media.content.np&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial-social&utm_content=discovery.content
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