Under tremendous pressure to come up with billions of dollars to support Ukraine's military and backfill its members' own dwindling arsenals, the European Union said Wednesday that it had devised a legal way to use frozen Russian assets to help arm Ukraine.
The goal to make Russia pay for Ukraine's arsenal and for its reconstruction has made for a popular slogan among the allies, but parlaying it into actual policy has proved difficult, largely because of legal concerns around liquidating Russian state assets frozen under sanctions.
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