The roughly $300 billion in Russian assets that have been frozen by Ukraine's allies in the West will not be returned until Moscow pays for Ukraine's reconstruction, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O'Brien said at a U.S. Senate hearing on Nov. 8.
Why not just give the assets to Ukraine? Cut out the middle man.
make russia pay to reconstruct and them give it to ukraine
I could be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that the US would have to declare war to seize foreign assets like that.