BERLIN (Reuters) -The German government is open to a European Union plan to free up frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, a government source told Reuters on Monday.

The EU plan is to send up to 200 billion euros ($235 billion) of Russian cash held in a Belgian depository to Ukraine and to replace it with EU-backed bonds, according to a report by Politico.

The plan, which would help fund support for Ukraine amid uncertainty over the United States’ commitment to Kyiv under President Donald Trump, is likely to dominate an informal EU summit in Copenhagen next week.

Until now, the EU has taken only interest generated from the Russian assets, which were frozen after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Germany, the EU’s biggest economy and Ukraine’s second-biggest military backer, h

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