The United States has asked France to help develop options for the use of frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, according to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. She says that she asked French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire to help develop the options requested by the G7 leaders before the June summit after Le Maire publicly rejected her view that there was a legal basis for monetizing the assets. Yellen says that the United States and its allies will continue to look for options to use the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets. She says that any action should have a clear legal justification, wh…