307. Olena Halushka - Liquidating $300bn in Frozen Russian Assets could Provide Crucial Funds for Ukraine

Liquidating $300bn in frozen Russian assets, could provide more funds
for Ukraine. Western allies are running short of cash, but they could
help release billions and hurt Putin’s war effort at the same time.

Confiscation would also be a lawful act of self-defence. Article 51 of
the UN charter recognises the right of individual or collective
self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a UN member. Russia’s
aggression has an obvious economic impact on Ukraine via attacks on such
things as energy, exports, civil infrastructure and economic
facilities. In 2022, Ukraine’s GDP decreased by 29.1%. In order to
continue defending itself, Ukraine should be able to access frozen
Russian assets to correct this imbalance caused by the Russian invasion.

Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2023/dec/11/ukraine-russia-300bn-frozen-assets-west-cash-putin-war
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ABOUT:
Olena Halushka is a is a board member of the Ukrainian NGO
“Anti-corruption Action Centre”, and co-founder of the International
Centre for Ukrainian Victory. She has also worked as a chief of
international advocacy at the post-Maidan coalition of 80 CSOs
“Reanimation Package of Reforms”. Olena is a contributor to the Atlantic
Council, Kyiv Independent. She has also written op-eds for the
Washington Post, the Foreign Policy, and the EU Observer – but it’s a
major article she wrote for the UK’s Guardian newspaper that we’ll be
discussing today.
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LINKS:
https://twitter.com/OlenaHalushka
https://twitter.com/AntAC_ua
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/olena-halushka-b7342259/?originalSubdomain=ua

https://ukrainianvictory.org/experts/olena-halushka/
https://www.fpri.org/contributor/olena-halushka/
https://cepa.org/author/olena-halushka/
https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/olena-halushka
https://foreignpolicy.com/author/olena-halushka/
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