UK and EU to discuss confiscation of frozen Russian assets

Bart De Weverbelgian Prime Minister

I advocate great caution when it comes to those frozen assets,

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said at a March 6 EU summit

There is no dilemma between using an aggressor's assets to protect its victim and maintaining a commitment to the rules-based order,

wrote Nigel Gould-Davies, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Britain's former ambassador to Belarus, in a legal analysis

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

We view those intentions as unlawful, and any attempt to fulfill them would entail very serious legal consequences,

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier this month