UK urges west to use frozen Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine’s economy

Foreign secretary says there are legal, moral and political justifications for using assets of $350bn

Britain is ramping up pressure on western governments to use $350bn of frozen Russian assets to help rebuild Ukraine’s war-shattered economy, with the foreign secretary, Lord David Cameron, insisting there were legal, moral and political justifications for action.

Cameron said the countries that were backing Ukraine had economies that when combined were 25 times the size of Russia and it was important to make that firepower count.