“Enough talking, it’s time to act!” Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland, posted on X last month. “Let’s finance our aid for Ukraine from the Russian frozen assets.”

Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia have joined the call. “The time is ripe now to take the next step,” Margus Tsahkna, the foreign minister of Estonia, said last month, after submitting a discussion paper on the subject to the European Union.

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