The United States transfers confiscated Russian assets to Estonia
| Russia's Foreign Ministry announced that the United States had transferred nearly $500,000 of "confiscated Russian funds" to Estonia for aid to Ukraine, continuing its hostile actions. |
According to Mehr News Agency to “First Deputy Minister of Justice, Prosecutor General Lisa of Monaco, and Adviser to the Ministry of Justice of Estonia, Tunisia , quoted Tass, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Sar, today at the Munich security conference, they announced the transfer of about 500 thousand dollars from the confiscated funds of Russia to help the war in Ukraine to Estonia.”
This is the first transfer of funds from the United States to a foreign ally aimed at providing direct aid to Ukraine.
The ministry explained that the confiscated funds were transferred to Estonia because the current conditions do not allow them to be transferred directly to Ukraine, noting that “Estonia will use these funds in a project to accelerate damage assessment and overhaul of distribution systems and “Ukraine’s energy transmission has been attacked by Russian forces.”
