Britain and countries worldwide have been urged to use hundreds of billions of pounds of frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s war against Vladimir Putin, as a London businessman known as the Kremlin leader’s “number one enemy” said it would be a “total game changer” in the conflict.
Bill Browder, who was the largest international investor in Russia until being declared a threat to its national security for exposing corruption, said that handing frozen Russian assets – which are estimated to total at least £275billion worldwide including £23billion in Britain – to Ukraine would tip the balance and allow to “fight off the Russians” and “arm themselves properly”.
