President Trump’s threat to abandon Ukraine added urgency to plans to fund security or reconstruction with the roughly $300 billion owned by Russia’s central bank.

With President Donald Trump's suspension of U.S. military aid to Ukraine, European nations are again looking at how to utilise some $300 billion of Russian state assets frozen by the Group of Seven rich democracies after Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

On the eve of a major E.U. summit on defense and Ukraine, a group of Ukraine supporters and right activists gathered outside the European Council building on Wednesday, asking E.U. leaders to seize frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s fight for survival.