By Ben Aris in Berlin Russia is preparing for a potential massive legal battle with the West to thwart any attempt by the US or Europe to seize the Central Bank of Russia’s (CBR) frozen $300bn of frozen assets and give them to Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on January 12. Officials in Moscow have been analysing the prospects of asset seizures, after the White House started pressuring its European partners in December to start the process of seizing the assets as a way of continuing to fund Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Western financial and military aid has become snarled in internal wrangling …