BBCNEWS BBC June 15, 2024
on thursday, leaders agreed to use the interest from frozen russian assets to raise $50 billion for kyiv�*s war effort — plus humanitarian assistance and reconstruction efforts. the g7 countries, which include the us, canada, britain, france, germany, japan and italy, are sitting on about $300 billion in seized russian assets. meanwhile, speaking in moscow, president vladimir putin on friday laid out his terms for a ceasefire. mr putin demanded ukraine withdraw from four regions of ukraine that are partially occupied by russia, and abandon efforts tojoin nato. both ukraine and th...