Russian buyers trapped as EU mulls utilizing frozen funds – DW – 10/24/2025

The EU is at the moment debating whether to use frozen Russian assets to pay war reparations to Ukraine. Along with the funds of Russia’s central financial institution, European depositories are additionally holding frozen securities belonging to thousands and thousands of Russian non-public buyers who usually are not on Western sanctions lists.

Legally, these buyers are entitled to reclaim their property, however in observe, only a few have succeeded.