WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, led a bipartisan letter to Belgian Ambassador to the U.S. Frederic Bernard expressing support for European Commission efforts to leverage Russian sovereign assets to finance a loan for Ukraine.
"As Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to wage his unjust and unprovoked war against Ukraine - all while carrying out a variety of hybrid attacks against Europe and the United States - we write to express our support for European Commission (EC) proposals to raise up to $244 billion via leveraged frozen Russian sovereign assets to provide a loan to Ukraine, which Kyiv w...