Japan refused to transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

Japan, in response to the EU proposal, made it clear that it could not use Russian assets of about $ 30 billion frozen on its territory to issue a loan to Ukraine, the European edition of the Politico newspaper reported, citing two EU diplomats familiar with the negotiations.

As one of the European diplomats noted, Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama ruled out the possibility of using Russian assets due to legal problems, the newspaper writes.