{"id":2218,"date":"2025-02-06T00:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T00:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/euroclear-to-send-2-billion-euro-tranche-of-russian-assets-profits-for-kyiv\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T00:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T00:03:47","slug":"euroclear-to-send-2-billion-euro-tranche-of-russian-assets-profits-for-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/euroclear-to-send-2-billion-euro-tranche-of-russian-assets-profits-for-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroclear to send 2-billion-euro tranche of Russian assets profits for Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-1904616761.jpg\" alt=\"Euroclear to send 2-billion-euro tranche of Russian assets profits for Kyiv\"><\/p>\n<p>The European Union will receive a second tranche of 2 billion euros ($2.05 billion) from profits generated by frozen Russian Central Bank assets that are meant for Ukraine and its war effort.<\/p>\n<p>Euroclear, the Belgian-based clearing house, sent its first payment of 1.55 billion euros ($1.7 billion) last July after the EU passed legislation that applied a windfall tax to the profits generated by Russia&#8217;s assets immobilized in response to the full-scale invasion. <\/p>\n<p>The clearing house said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroclear.com\/newsandinsights\/en\/press\/2025\/mr-05-euroclear-delivers-strong-results-in-2024.html\">statement<\/a> on Feb. 5 that the second payment is expected to be made in March and should amount to approximately 2 billion euros. <\/p>\n<p>Euroclear earned 6.9 billion euros ($7.18 billion) in 2024 from frozen Russian assets, the statement says. In 2023, these revenues amounted to 4.4 billion euros ($4.6 million).<\/p>\n<p>From the proceeds of the frozen Russian assets in 2024, 1.7 billion euros ($1.77 billion) was transferred to the Belgian budget as tax revenues.<\/p>\n<p>In reaction to Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion in February 2022, more than $300 billion of the foreign exchange reserve assets of the central bank of the Russian Federation were frozen in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these funds \u2014191 billion euros ($198 million) \u2014 are kept in the international depository Euroclear in Belgium. <\/p>\n<p>The Group of Seven countries <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/g7-to-provide-ukraine-50-billion-in-loans-backed-by-frozen-russian-assets\/\">agreed<\/a> last year on a $50 billion loan that will be paid back using the profits generated from frozen assets. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/us-announces-20-billion-loan-for-ukraine-as-part-of-g7-initiative\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">US announces $20 billion loan for Ukraine as part of G7 initiative<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Dec. 10 that it will provide $20 billion in loan assistance to Ukraine, marking its contribution to a broader $50 billion initiative supported by G7 countries.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/size\/w256h256\/format\/png\/2023\/03\/K-new.svg\" alt=\"Euroclear to send 2-billion-euro tranche of Russian assets profits for Kyiv\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Tim Zadorozhnyy<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-1251747231.jpeg\" alt=\"Euroclear to send 2-billion-euro tranche of Russian assets profits for Kyiv\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/more-than-2-billion-of-russian-assets-profits-in-europe-are-to-be-transferred-to-the-fund-for-ukraine\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union will receive a second tranche of 2 billion euros ($2.05 billion) from profits generated by frozen Russian Central Bank assets that are meant for Ukraine and its war effort. 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