US to transfer nearly $500,000 to Estonia to help Ukraine
The U.S. will transfer confiscated Russian funds to Estonia to be used in support of Ukraine, the US Justice Department announced on Saturday. US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and Estonian Secretary General Tõnis Saar announced today at the Munich Security Conference the transfer of nearly $500,000 in forfeited Russian funds for the purpose of providing aid to Ukraine. The funds were forfeited by the United States following the breakup of an illegal procurement network attempting to import into Russia a high-precision, U.S.-origin machine tool with uses in the defense and nuclear prolif...