Use frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine, says EU’s top diplomat

Kaja Kallas, Estonia’s prime minister until July, has been in her new post for 11 days. Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/AFP/Getty Images

Billions of Russian state funds frozen in the European Union should be used to aid Ukraine, the EU’s top diplomat has said.

Kaja Kallas, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security, told the Guardian and four other European newspapers that Ukraine had a legitimate claim for compensation and that Russian assets held in the EU were “a tool to pressure Russia”.