More than $400 million in assets have been frozen and blocked since the Ukrainian invasion began.
More than $400 million in assets have been frozen, blocked since Ukrainian invasion beganNataliia Prykhodko looks out from her burnt-out apartment in Irpin, Ukraine, on Thursday. The RCMP said that since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, more than $400 million in assets held by individuals on Canada's sanctions list have been frozen or blocked.that since Russia moved into Ukraine on Feb.
"We're still a ways from passing that legislation," the prime minister said on Friday. "Obviously, there are lots of conversations going on internationally about accountability and overseas assets of Russian oligarchs and others.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the citizens of Ukraine will be at the heart of whatever is done with the seized assets. Trudeau also didn't directly answer whether Canada would deliver the full value of what's been frozen over to reconstruction funds. But whatever the decision, it would have to be made with some level of consultation with Ukrainians, he said.
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