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By Ali Lyon Rishi Sunak backed calls for the UK to seize the interest accumulating on frozen Russian assets, arguing it should be used to pay for Ukraine’s defence and recovery. Writing in The Sunday Times to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Prime Minister said: “We must be bolder in seizing the hundreds of billions of frozen Russian assets. That starts with taking the billions in interest these assets are collecting and sending it to Ukraine.” The move, which follows comments from the Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron, that there was a “moral, political, legal an…

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