Russian frozen assets will have to be used for Ukraine at some point, Belgium’s deputy prime minister Vincent Van Peteghem said on Thursday, adding however Belgium « would not take any reckless compromises » before it agreed to any deal over this. Peter Zalmayev, Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, says Belgium has been pushing a ‘defeatist rhetoric’, ‘repeating Kremlin’s lines about how Russia is pre-destined to win this war’.
