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#Europe agreed early Friday morning to keep #Ukraine funded for 2 years with a loan of 90 billion euros [~$105 billion] though they failed to agree on their first-choice option of using #Russia’s frozen state assets as backing for the loan.

That ambitious frozen-asset plan was killed at the 11th hour as European heads of state & government met in Brussels — a show of division that risked making the #EU appear indecisive at a key moment.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/world/europe/russia-eu-ukraine-frozen-assets.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share