Originally Posted by
Tartiflette Fan
On balance I would say no. That money has been paid to the EU, so whatever happens they are not seeing it again, whether it goes to Ukraine ( which may use it to buy weapons from those countries ) or is used for industrial development somewhere in the EU. The EU is donating from its pre-existing budget: there has been no special levy to raise cash for Ukraine.
Agreed.
It also looks like Russia is getting China and Belarus to do its diplomatic dirty work for it by having them put together a 'plan for peace in Ukraine' which Russia, no doubt' would 'reluctantly' agree to! It's all a sham and we need to keep supplying Ukraine with whatever they need and want until all Russian forces have been kicked out of all of Ukraine. Then we can talk about the Russian reparations bill!