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Zelenskyy arrives in Brussels for EU summit

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Brussels on Thursday 18 December, where a summit of European Union leaders has just started. Source: Dmytro Lytvyn, Zelenskyy's communications adviser,

Under pressure at home, Belgium’s leader treads a tight rope with EU partners over funds for Ukraine

Belgium was always at the heart of the European Union. Now it's at the center of tensions over a plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine.

EU leaders will loan 90 billion euros to Ukraine, but fail to agree to use frozen Russian assets

European Union leaders decided to borrow cash to loan $105 billion to Ukraine to fund its defence against Russia for the next two years rather than use frozen Russian assets, sidestepping divisions over an unprecedented plan to finance Kyiv with Russian sovereign cash.

Zelenskyy heads to Brussels for EU council talks

ABC News' Ian Pannell reports on the EU summit set to discuss whether billions of euros in frozen Russian assets will be given to Ukraine.

EU leaders prepare to take unprecedented steps to help Ukraine at a high-stakes summit

The European Commission has proposed that the leaders use some of the frozen assets — totaling 210 billion euros ($246 billion) — to underwrite a 90 billion-euro ($105 billion) “reparations loan” to Ukraine. The U.K., Canada and Norway would fill the gap.
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